18 Jul
2001
18 Jul
'01
5:51 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
total used *free* shared buffers cached Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29 -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31 Swap: 156 1 155
Add free buffers to free memory to get actual values. Therefore, your free is 32, not 1. This makes sense. The kernel allocates all free memory to buffers and cache, because there's no sense in leaving it unused. If you have 32 MB free memory, then what was the point in buying it? When any program requires memory, it will be allocated from the buffers.
Philip
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