Taking away the buffers and cached you end up with the 2nd line of numbers which indicate you have 362mb of free ram, you have around 150mb of programs in memory the rest being cached files from disks.
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Melinda Taylor wrote: > > I just noticed after using dump that 100% of the memory in my system is > now in use. I check this also on my linux laptop, after using > 'dump' my 412 MB ram had only 12k free. > > The command free shows: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 514328 502352 11976 0 4476 345684 > -/+ buffers/cache: 152192 362136 > Swap: 875500 0 875500 > > > Similarly in my server, after issuing a dump command the whole 3GB of > physical RAM is used! Even after dump is finished the ram isn't freed (I > am running redhat 7.3). > > How do I recover the ram in situation like this. With mylaptop I can > reboot with the server I can't! > > Can anyone recommend tools for checking and monitoring such things. > > Many Thanks, > > Melinda > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
