On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 21:14, Jeff Grossman wrote: > 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 > Swap: 650552 6708 643844 > > To simplify what Roberto said, you're looking at the wrong line in the output of "free." You should read the line marked "-/+ buffers/cache". This shows that 124 MB of RAM is being used by your programs, and 389 MB is available if the programs need it. The extra RAM being used for cache will speed up your system overall and is NOT a problem -- it's a big feature of the Linux kernel! Also, the small amount of swap being used is not anything to be worried about. The only time you're "really" using swap is when that "free" column in the -/+ buffers/cache line becomes zero (or very small). Hope this helps, Jeremy Portzer -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer jeremyp@xxxxxxxxx trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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