The trick here is to look at the 2nd line of numbers from free.
used free
-/+ buffers/cache: 321 3482
This is what the system memory use looks like if you ignore the cache and
buffers.
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David
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
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> From: John Drescher <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] high memory utilzation
> To: Ramesh <[email protected]>
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ramesh <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >
> > Thank you for the reply. However I have a question...
> >
> > why is it says I have used 2889 out of total 3804 memory and only 914Mb
> is
> > free ? I am a bit confused...
> >
> >
> > total used free shared buffers
> > cached
> > Mem: 3804 2889 914 0 357 2210
> >
> >
> >
> >
> That is counting disk cache and disk buffers. These disk cache and buffers
> will be released when an application needs memory so its not really used
> memory. To avoid confusion over this always read only the second line of
> free. This is the true memory available.
>
> John
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