On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Bobby Gochuico wrote:

> Right now after an hour its now  264MB down to 171 MB.

No, it is not.

> Processes: 32 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  1.9% user,  1.7% system,  0.0% nice, 96.2% idle
> Mem:   517220K av,  345956K used,  171264K free,   26932K shrd,  145524K
> buff
> Swap:  514040K av,       0K used,  514040K free                   67160K
> cached

This indicates 171264K + 145524K + 67160K = 375MB free memory.

Don't worry that much about the "free" column. This column is misnamed and
should read "wasted idle memory not needed".

Regards
Henrik

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