20 Jul
2001
20 Jul
'01
1:04 a.m.
Sometime on Jul 19, Nikhil Joshi assembled some asciibets to say:
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 05:37 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote:
Add free buffers to free memory to get actual values. Therefore, your free is 32, not 1. This makes sense.
Then why my system is using swap file ( 1 MB in this case) if I have 32 megs of free memory ?
You have a lot of processes running, though many of them are not active. They are blocked, waiting for some event to take place. These have been written to swap because they are just wasting real RAM. The real RAM is now free, so is allocated to buffers and cache, which can very likely free up your blocked process faster.
Philip
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