On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Schlomo Schapiro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just now got my new AMD Athlon 1600+ w/ 512MB RAM and free gives this
> output:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 514032 208576 305456 0 48824 178956
> -/+ buffers/cache: 18014398509462780 533236
> Swap: 525304 0 525304
>
> Can anybody explain the high number in the second line ? Sadly it also
> confuses xosview.
[omer@zak1 omer]$ bc
bc 1.04
Copyright (C) 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
obase=16
18014398509462780
3FFFFFFFFFB4FC
[... CTRL-D ...]
So I guess that the real number is the negative number (wrapped around
0x40000000000000 which is 2^54 or approx. 16*10^15) -19204, which is
equal to the difference 514032 - 533236. The man free page which I have
is very unclear about the meaning of the numbers in the -/+ buffers/cache
line.
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