Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-11
Severity: normal
Hi,
The "free" cmd does not show properly used memory, as you can see,
slab is not taken into account, "used / buffer cache" is a useless information,
for instance on this server :
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# tail /dev/zero
Processus arrêté
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 33086568 137060 32949508 0 412 5468
-/+ buffers/cache: 131180 32955388
Swap: 0 0 0
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# updatedb
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 33086568 2664080 30422488 0 896132 24184
-/+ buffers/cache: 1743764 31342804
Swap: 0 0 0
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# tail /dev/zero
Processus arrêté
r...@vzb:/etc/apt# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 33086568 138980 32947588 0 396 5248
-/+ buffers/cache: 133336 32953232
Swap: 0 0 0
I may be necessary to substract slab usage from used col on the +/- buffer
cache row.
Regards.
Nicolas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (999, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.6-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
procps suggests no packages.
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