How do i see the actual memory usage?

[Søren Neigaard]

Ok, this gives me:

---------
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1033684    1008540      25144          0     210324     548616
-/+ buffers/cache:     249600     784084
Swap:      3156680        696    3155984
---------

Hm but..? Does this mean my system, running almost nothing, uses almost 
all my physical memory?

/Søren


Radek Vokál wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:36 +0200, Søren Neigaard wrote:
> 
>>if i do a "top" it always uses almost all memory, no matter if nothing 
>>is running on my system, so im guessing that "top" does not show me the 
>>actual memory usage, but rather the memory the system has "reserved" or 
>>something.
>>
>>So is there a way to see the actual memory usage, so i can see how much 
>>memory is actuall available on the system?
> 
> 
> use `free`
> 
> Radek
> 

-- 
Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Søren Neigaard
System Architect
................................
Mobilethink A/S
Arosgaarden
Åboulevarden 23, 4.sal
DK - 8000 Århus C
Telefon: +45 86207800
Direct: +45 86207810
Fax: +45 86207801
Email: s.neigaard at mobilethink.dk
Web: www.mobilethink.dk
................................