Re: memory question

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 01:13:59PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> I've got 512MB of RAM, and I wanted to see how much of it is free. So I
> ran gtop, which showed me that ~84MB are used (mainly X and apache-ssl).
> OK so far, but cat /proc/meminfo tells me that ~480MB are in use, and
> only 32MB free. So, which of both is right, and who is eating that much
> memory??

Kernel buffers and cache.  If your processes need that memory, it will
be claimed.  But the machine becomes much slower and io bound if you
take away too much.

Cheers,


Joost