Erik Mouw wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:44:58PM +0200, Hilik Stein wrote: >>i have a working system here, where i see that the amount of free memory >>keeps dropping constantly, and never goes back up, i understood that it >>could be that the memory was going into some memory caches, can someone >>please explain how i can locate the missing memory ? >> > > /proc/meminfo shows you (in Buffers and Cached), and you can also use > the "free" utility. This is something even I am curious about given a linux system, what is cached memory, buffer cache, network data cache? Also, over a few days of running if the free memory reduces to a few MB (on a 256 MB system) and the cached increases and then this state stays, what does this implies kernel and mm behaviour is concerned? Thanks Amit -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
