Hello list,
Does anyone know why free shows a different amount of cached memory that
/proc/meminfo? For example:
# grep ^Cached /proc/meminfo
Cached: 277660 kB
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1020416 623016 397400 0 120336 342508
...
So 271 MB vs. 334 MB
That was on SLES 11 SP2. Interesting, I try a RHEL 6.3 system and see
much closer numbers:
# grep ^Cached /proc/meminfo
Cached: 38772 kB
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 245772 235684 10088 0 94696 38824
Here, "free" shows only 52 KB more.
I must be looking at "apples and oranges", but I'm not sure why. snmp
seems to agree with /proc/meminfo.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
"Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com>
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