Hello everybody, When the top is started its shows buffers and cached. The help explains buffers as - amount of memory used as buffers. There is nothing given on cached. Can anyone tell me what is meant by buffers and cached in top. regards, amit __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/