Read the second line, you'll feel better! The system caches a lot of stuff for latter potential reuse. To know how much memory is really used, substract the cached and buffers value (done on the second line).
Guillaume. On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:54, Brian V Bonini wrote: > 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.. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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