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 -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
