It is possible to get the total amount of buffer or page cache memory,
in kilobytes, that are free and available from /proc/meminfo ( attribute
"Inactive" ). This is memory that has not been recently used and can be
reclaimed for other purposes. ( see
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/R
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Shashank
Rachamalla wrote:
> Is the below calculation valid?
>
> Total Free Memory Available for Applications = free + buffers + cached
Cache is available to applications, yes, but I don't think that you
can included all of the buffer space. I'd be inclined to leav
Hi
I want to write a script to find free memory available for use by
applications. The following is the output of 'free' command in one of
our lab machines.
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:3804370698 0107 3
