On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 00:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [ ... output from `top` ... ]
It may be simplistic to say so, but the one thing that top doesn't do is
what `free` does - do the math:
sirius:~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 515168 495068 20100 0 37104 196644
-/+ buffers/cache: 261320 253848
Swap: 996020 34824 961196
sirius:~ $
While this output really is a tad cryptic, the -/+ line shows what you
actually are interested in.
All it does reduce the used number (increase the free number) by the
amount of memory being used by buffers and cache, but as you can see on
the example output from a small server shown above, what at first glance
appears to be a system starving for memory is really only about 1/2 used
- with Linux being awesome and quietly caching things for us to improve
performance.
AfC
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