I have tried to run with a single process (i.e. the entire grid is
contained by one process) and the the command free -m on the compute
node returns

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3913       1540       2372          0         49       1234
-/+ buffers/cache:        257       3656
Swap:         1983          0       1983


while top returns
top - 16:01:09 up 4 days,  5:56,  1 user,  load average: 0.53, 0.16, 0.10
Tasks:  63 total,   3 running,  60 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 49.4% us,  0.7% sy,  0.0% ni, 49.9% id,  0.0% wa,  0.0% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:   4007720k total,  1577968k used,  2429752k free,    50664k buffers
Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,  1263844k cached

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