is this normal ? (on my debian)
hello LIST !
i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem,
but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that.
there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ...
is this normal or can someone pls help and explain things to me ?
thanks,
mao
here are my outputs :
boomerang:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127884 83696 44188 19864 50052 20984
-/+ buffers/cache: 12660 115224
Swap: 130748 0 130748
boomerang:~$ ps auxf
USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
daemon 96 0.0 0.3 808 424 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/portmap
daemon 143 0.0 0.3 848 448 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd
lp 125 0.0 0.6 1572 884 ? S Mar 20 0:00 lpd MAIN
root 1 0.0 0.3 768 388 ? S Mar 20 0:03 init [2]
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 20 0:00 (kflushd)
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW< Mar 20 0:00 (kswapd)
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 20 0:00 (nfsiod)
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 20 0:00 (nfsiod)
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 20 0:00 (nfsiod)
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Mar 20 0:00 (nfsiod)
root 16 0.0 0.1 732 232 ? S Mar 20 0:00 update
root 84 0.0 0.4 900 524 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/syslogd
root 86 0.0 0.3 784 392 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/klogd
root 98 0.0 0.3 868 456 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
root 19565 0.0 0.5 1204 652 ? S 10:20 0:00 \_ in.telnetd:
202.7
mao 19566 0.0 0.9 1848 1180 p0 S 10:20 0:00 \_ -bash
mao 19685 0.0 0.4 928 556 p0 R 10:25 0:00 \_ ps auxf
root 101 0.0 0.9 1584 1156 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/named
root 112 0.0 0.2 760 356 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/gpm -m
/dev
root 118 0.0 0.4 952 540 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/tcplogd
root 120 0.0 0.3 868 488 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/icmplogd
root 140 0.0 0.3 908 444 ? S Mar 20 0:00
/usr/sbin/junkbuster
root 146 0.0 0.3 860 500 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron
root 151 0.0 0.8 1804 1028 ? S Mar 20 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache
www-data 10374 0.0 0.8 1840 1132 ? S 06:42 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 10375 0.0 0.8 1840 1132 ? S 06:42 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 10376 0.0 0.8 1840 1132 ? S 06:42 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 10377 0.0 0.8 1840 1136 ? S 06:42 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 10378 0.0 0.8 1840 1128 ? S 06:42 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 18732 0.0 0.8 1840 1128 ? S 08:21 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 18733 0.0 0.8 1840 1128 ? S 08:21 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
www-data 18935 0.0 0.8 1840 1132 ? S 08:39 0:00 \_
/usr/sbin/apache
root 158 0.0 0.3 844 428 2 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 159 0.0 0.3 844 428 3 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 160 0.0 0.3 844 428 4 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 161 0.0 0.3 844 428 5 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 162 0.0 0.3 844 428 6 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 177 0.0 0.3 844 428 1 S Mar 20 0:00 /sbin/getty 38400
tty
root 18108 0.0 0.7 1004 936 ? S 06:48 0:00 /usr/sbin/xntpd
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