[K12OSN] memory issues

[Robert Arkiletian]

On 3/3/06, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
> What does free show?  Top doesn't seem to show how much RAM is allocated to cache (hmm,

Yes it does. top says 2.7G is cached. I wouldn't worry about the
memory unless you start using swap. In this example swap is 0k used.

> > top - 11:34:14 up 23:45,  1 user,  load average: 6.18, 5.67, 3.73
> > Tasks: 323 total,   5 running, 318 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 12.7% us,  6.4% sy,  0.1% ni, 76.9% id,  0.0% wa,  0.2% hi,
> > 3.6% si
> > Mem:   4153708k total,  4094596k used,    59112k free,   479060k buffers
> > Swap:  2040244k total,        0k used,  2040244k free,  2787320k cached

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Robert Arkiletian
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