On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:57:34AM +1000, Melinda Taylor wrote:

>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        514328     502352      11976          0       4476     345684

This is the important line:

> -/+ buffers/cache:     152192     362136

It shows that you actually have only 152MB in use; the rest is used as
kernel buffers and caches (the two rightmost columns).  345MB is being
used as disc cache.

> How do I recover the ram in situation like this. With mylaptop I can
> reboot with the server I can't!

The kernel will free its buffers and caches if a process needs more
memory.  There's no need for you to do anything, and definitely no need
to reboot.


Cheers,

John
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