On 2/14/06, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ free > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 1035204 968140 67064 0 270248 > 538412 > -/+ buffers/cache: 159480 875724 > Swap: 996020 300 995720 > > Of course, this is the output of free _after_ the previous failed emerge > attempts. > It seems RAM really was caught and not released... I can try rebooting,
No, it wasn't. The important line is the "+/- buffers/cache", which shows you have 850M free. The rest of your used memory is buffers or cached programs, all of which can be swapped back out. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
