On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:00:40PM +0200, Shimon Panfil wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I see a considerable difference between total used memory reported by
> top and the sum of total sizes of processes.
> In particular (gtop):Sum of total sizes 92624K
> memory used:203948K
The kernel will attempt to use the remaining unused RAM for disk
buffers ("caching"), so if you'll run 'free' on a lightly loaded
machine, you may notice some 70MB used for buffers. They don't hurt
and will be freed as soon an application needs the RAM.
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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