Hi Matt,

> It appears that heavy I/O processes cause memory to be freed up.  That
> sounds funny

Yepp, it's quite odd.

> can you trust MRTG in this case as accurately judging free
> mem usage?

Yes, I think so. MRTG uses the following command to fetch that info:

cat /proc/meminfo | grep "MemFree:" | sed 's/ * / /g' | cut -d ' ' -f2

That works well from the command line and the stats I see in MRTG represent 
those at the time when I run the command manually. So it doesn't actually 
take the buffers into account at all.

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Mit freundlichen Gr��en / With best regards

Michael Stauber
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Unix/Linux Support Engineer

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