Viestissä Maanantai 12. Toukokuuta 2003 04:14, Jeff Grossman kirjoitti:
> I never knew about the "free" command. But, I still don't understand
> how the system can start only using about 100M and now it is using
> almost all of the built in memory. And starting to use swap space.
>
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 513852 488336 25516 0 137064
> 227048
> -/+ buffers/cache: 124224 389628
^^^^^^
It's still using about 120M for applications. The rest is used by the OS as
buffers and cache. Idle applications get swapped out so that the memory can
be put to better use by active programs.
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Markku Kolkka
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