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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] who's using my memory

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:18:27PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 14/05/07 Ralph Boland said:
> 
> > Immediatly after booting my ubuntu 6.10 and creating a virtual terminal
> > I do a
> > 
> >      procinfo  memory
> > 
> > Result:
> > 
> > Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
> > Mem:        247324      243376      3948           0        8056
> > Swap:       722884           0           722884
> > 
> > Since I am doing practically nothing,  who is using all this memory?
> > Can I turn some of if off?
> 
> You paid for the RAM. Don't you want it used?
> 
> Where's the +/- buffers/cache line? That's the important one. 

I was confused by that at first too.  Apparently some distros have a
'procinfo' command.  The above is not actually the output of 'free'.

mh

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