** Changed in: procps (Debian)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126329
Title:
"free" doesn't account for slab cache
Status in “procps” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “procps” package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: procps
Using procps 1:3.2.7-3ubuntu2 from Feisty, do "free -m":
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2026 1967 59 0 629 665
-/+ buffers/cache: 672 1354
Swap: 0 0 0
Historically I've used the "-/+ buffers/cache" line as a way to
determine how much memory my system is "really" using. "Really" in
this case means "memory in use that won't just be freed up when I want
it for something".
Since the "-/+ buffers/cache" line doesn't include the Slab cache (the
"Slab:" line in /proc/meminfo), and the Slab cache can grow quite big,
"free" cannot be used to determine the amount of free memory in the
machine :-(.
I would like "free" to count the Slab: memory as free, at least on the
"-/+ buffers/cache" line.
Or that somebody could tell me an alternative way of finding out the
amount of free memory in my machine without having to manually add
things up from /proc/meminfo.
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