[Samba] Fwd: high memory utilzation

[David Miller]

The trick here is to look at the 2nd line of numbers from free.

                                 used      free
-/+ buffers/cache:        321       3482

This is what the system memory use looks like if you ignore the cache and
buffers.
--
David


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

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> From: John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] high memory utilzation
> To: Ramesh <cfmx07 at yahoo.com>
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> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Ramesh <cfmx07 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >
> > Thank you for the reply. However I have a question...
> >
> > why is it says I have used 2889 out of total 3804 memory and only 914Mb
> is
> > free ? I am a bit confused...
> >
> >
> >                   total           used       free     shared    buffers
> > cached
> > Mem:          3804       2889        914          0        357       2210
> >
> >
> >
> >
> That is counting disk cache and disk buffers. These disk cache and buffers
> will be released when an application needs memory so its not really used
> memory. To avoid confusion over this always read only the second line of
> free. This is the true memory available.
>
> John
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> John M. Drescher
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