On Tuesday 20 January 2004 17:28, Sudev Barar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 14:51, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > > Top is counting the shared/buffered as well. > > Check this. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shridhar]$ free > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 512364 413984 98380 0 44584 244960 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 124440 387924 > > Swap: 264560 0 264560 > > Got it. and thanks. One point why buffered mem? I know I am spooning it
What do you mean by why buffered mem? Buffer memory is for IO buffers.Whatever you write does not go to disk immediately. And even after that it stays in memory for faster access. e.g. if you need a file and OS knows it hasn't been changed lately, it will just pick it up from buffer and give it to you.. And linux rather aggressively uses buffers. Everything that is not used by any programs is potentially buffer memory.. > off but need some answers as one of the servers that I am remotely > administring stopped today. I suspected memory but with what I see now > that may not be issue as with 15 users it report only 650M usage in the > second line of free. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] shridhar]$ uname -a > > Linux daithan 2.6.0 #1 SMP Mon Dec 22 18:28:30 IST 2003 i686 unknown > > What was this for?? To impress..:-) Whoever gets impressed that is..:-) Actually, I did run a free in one of my konsoles. Pasted the same stuff for this reply.. it got included too..(Notice zero swap. With 2.4 series you do get tiny amount of swap touched) Shridhar ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
