A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hello
>
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have
> 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is
> debian really eating all that memory or is it something else??
Very likely that 31MB is being used up by the file system cache. This is
what I get when I type 'free' on my workstation:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128476 120848 7628 66024 2984 59472
-/+ buffers/cache: 58392 70084
Swap: 83012 4108 78904
I sure as hell don't have 120MB of stuff in memory. As you can see, about
half of that is 'cached'. In other words, the file system cache.
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
