On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > But still, all my precious RAM is nowhere to be seen: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513464 359332 154132 0 6332 131384 > -/+ buffers/cache: 221616 291848 > Swap: 264996 5192 259804 You misunderstand the output of the 'free' command. RAM listed in the "free" column is RAM that is completely unused. It is wasted money. You don't want it. RAM under the "cached" column is RAM that is not used by any application, but it is used by the kernel to cache things like recently open files. It keeps the file in memory so it doesn't need to access the slow disk when an application next needs the file. So, there's no need to reclaim memory. In fact, based on the output you pasted above, you have more memory than you can use. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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