I want to know how much memory I've got free on my system. The free command gives me something like this:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2064832 2046196 18636 0 146892 1736968 -/+ buffers/cache: 162336 1902496 Swap: 2040244 12180 2028064 It would make sense to me that the kernel is sucking up most of my memory into a bunch of unused buffers and that I actually have a lot more than 18 megs of free memory. Is this the correct interpretation of these numbers? What is the best way to get a good idea of how much memory I actually have free on my system. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])