free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3722 3011 710 0 305 1352
-/+ buffers/cache: 1353 2369
Swap: 2047 21 2025
Do I genuinely require to increase the memory of this system?
On 28 June 2011 13:19, Jenny Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Good Lord!!!
>>
>> The amount of free RAM in my system keeps decreasing, What happens
>> when it RAM reaches to zero? Is it that it remove old object and free
>> up space?
>
> It is probably being used by buffer and cache.
>
> free -m <enter>
>
> should show you how much available memory and cache there is.
>
> Jenny
