Here's my scenario -- I start my linux box and check my available
memory space with 'free' and get the following:
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 258104 38564 219540 12108 6872 22504
-/+ buffers/cache: 9188 248916
Swap: 128516 0 128516
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and when start another program, then exit, and check 'free' I get.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 258104 50932 207172 12888 8308 32672
-/+ buffers/cache: 9952 248152
Swap: 128516 0 128516
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Am I reading this wrong? Shouldn't I get back the memory I used when the
program exits/terminates?
Is there a better program to check memory usage? If so, what is it?
Of all the years I've used linux, I could never figure out what is going
on with memory usage.
Beverly
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