I did the following on a recently rebooted machine. Observe the "free"
column of the "-/+ buffers/cache" line. It looks like running "hdparm -t"
permanently lost me about 7MB of RAM (114840 vs 107668). Could someone
tell me why this is happening, or how I am misreading "free" here?
Nothing fancy here, just a generic KT133 machine with a single IDE drive.
Thanks.
Chris
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126700 50428 76272 0 1808 36760
-/+ buffers/cache: 11860 114840
Swap: 265032 0 265032
# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.80 seconds = 22.86 MB/sec
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 126700 123136 3564 0 67344 36760
-/+ buffers/cache: 19032 107668
Swap: 265032 0 265032
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