Re: OT: free cmd is lying to me
At 1007390900s since epoch (12/03/01 03:48:20 -0500 UTC), Holger Rauch wrote:
> > only 222,688 K are being used by actual processes on the system.
>
> Ok. But where do the 600 MB of main memory that Oracle uses fit in
> there? Are they reported as cached memory?
I'm not certain, but I would guess that Oracle does not actually
allocate 600MB of memory for itself on startup, but rather waits until
it needs it.
On my machine, which has been up for a while, free looks like this:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514216 490676 23540 0 6132 178940
-/+ buffers/cache: 305604 208612
Swap: 248996 636 248360
I've got 300MB of memory "in use" by real processes. This is mostly
apache and servlet stuff. When I first start up my machine, however,
I'm only using about 160MB. It's only after the processes start to
handle requests and use memory that it gets reported.
> > Search this list archive for other e-mails on the free command; [...]
>
> I tried to find a search engine at the Debian site. Is there any?
There is a search front-end to all the Debian listservers at:
http://lists.debian.org/search.html
Free is a little tricky to understand, since it makes it look like
all your memory is being used all the time. In reality, this is good,
because you'd rather your machine be using all the memory rather than
let it sit idle.
Jason
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