[expert] Memory Usage

[Brian V Bonini]

Am I reading this wrong?

$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers    
cached
Mem:        516276     503136      13140          0     108192    
197816
-/+ buffers/cache:     197128     319148
Swap:       449780      14992     434788


why woudl the system be using 500+mb of mem? 'top' shows nothing weird..



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