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Re: meminfo?
- To: Shimon Panfil <shimonp(at-nospam)mobilian.com>
- Subject: Re: meminfo?
- From: Ilya Konstantinov <linux-il(at-nospam)future.galanet.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:11:41 +0200
- Cc: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-Reply-To: <3A93ADE8.FCBA1CFB@mobilian.com>; from shimonp@mobilian.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:00:40PM +0200
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On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:00:40PM +0200, Shimon Panfil wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I see a considerable difference between total used memory reported by
> top and the sum of total sizes of processes.
> In particular (gtop):Sum of total sizes 92624K
> memory used:203948K
The kernel will attempt to use the remaining unused RAM for disk
buffers ("caching"), so if you'll run 'free' on a lightly loaded
machine, you may notice some 70MB used for buffers. They don't hurt
and will be freed as soon an application needs the RAM.
--
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov
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