Alex and Rob,

Thanks for the replies.

It looks like the "buffers" value shown by "free" on SLES is the the sum
of the "Cached" and "SReclaimable" values from /proc/meminfo/, while on
RHEL it is just "Cached".

On SLES:
 # egrep '^Cached|^SRe' /proc/meminfo;free
Cached:           130336 kB
SReclaimable:      17576 kB
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1020416     318156     702260          0      11688     147912
...

On RHEL:
# egrep '^Cached|^SRe' /proc/meminfo;free
Cached:            36668 kB
SReclaimable:      25828 kB
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        245772     234828      10944          0      95568      36668
...

"Mike MacIsaac" <mikemac at-sign us.ibm.com>

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