Roger Larsson schrieb: >On m?ndag 27 mars 2006 08.49, antonio.dibacco wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm a little bit puzzled with the fields in /proc/meminfo. Which fields >>have I to sum up to get the amount of free memory? >> >> > >>From a 2.6 /proc/meminfo > >MemTotal: 515532 kB >MemFree: 6012 kB >Buffers: 79964 kB >Cached: 83264 kB >SwapCached: 82840 kB >Active: 294024 kB >Inactive: 130304 kB >- - - > >Completely free is only MemFree. But those pages are only needed for >interrupt handlers (close enough). > >Cached pages are also free but since they contain data that maybe will >be needed again (unmodified data that already is on disk) they are not >returned to MemFree state. > >Inactive pages has not been in use for awhile and can be written out >if needed (some are probably unmodified and quick to get) > > Active + Inactive + MemFree is not equal MemTotal. Where can i find the offset?
Thanks, Eberhard
