Messages in this thread |  | | From | Frank Dekervel <> | Subject | need help interpreting 'free' output. | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:32:52 +0100 |
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hello,
since i saw strange things happening with my free memory numbers, i tried this: - i compiled and booted a fresh kernel (no proprietary modules, no patches, just 2.4.14-pre4) - i did free.
bakvis:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 384912 55644 329268 0 3652 29880 -/+ buffers/cache: 22112 362800 Swap: 136512 0 136512
so i have 22 meg used right ?
- i started the daily cron jobs (updatedb and htdig and some minor things like log rotation)
- i did 'free' again.
bakvis:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 384912 377060 7852 0 29424 125660 -/+ buffers/cache: 221976 162936 Swap: 136512 752 135760
so now there is 220 meg used memory right ? and the memory is definitely used, because as soon as i start a memory hog the system hits swap ...
so what am i missing here ? should i provide more info about my kernel configuration ? vmstat numbers ?
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