try vmstat, see all the options in "man vmstat" it reads from
/proc/meminfo and /proc/stat
#vmstat -a 5 -S m
on my system with 2 GB ram it shows that i'm having 18 mb free, 922 mb
inactive and 821 mb active
my running processes only use a tiny bit of my active ram, you can check
it with:
#ps aux
From: Peter Kjellstrom
> On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote:
> > When I do a free, I get:
> > total used free sharedbuffers cached
> > Mem: 18482800 18030668 452132 0 6830689426792
> > -/+ buffers/cache:7920808 10561992
>
On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a little question about memory usage...
>
> When I do a free, I get:
/proc/meminfo may give you a more detailed summary.
/Peter
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem: 18482800 18030668
John Doe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a little question about memory usage...
>
> When I do a free, I get:
I calculate system memory usage by
(total memory) - (free memory) - (cached memory) - (buffers memory)
The "free" memory reported by free/top/other tools is very misleading,
and is the topic of
Hi,
I have a little question about memory usage...
When I do a free, I get:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 18482800 18030668 452132 0 6830689426792
-/+ buffers/cache:7920808 10561992
But, when I do a ps, mysql is
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