On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 10:31, Mohamed Patricio wrote: > hello people, > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 513488 510424 3064 668 8144 344916 > -/+ buffers/cache: 157364 356124 > Swap: 1228964 18428 1210536 > > Is correct I say , this: my machine have only 3064 of memory free to new > programs? >
This should be a FAQ question; it pops up way too regularly. In a word, no. What that says is that 3064 (Kb) has not been used by anything yet (has not been allocated). But you have 356124 (Kb) that has been allocated at some time but is now free (buffer/cache line). And you have 1210536 (Kb) in available swap space. So, you have 350 Mb of "real" memory free for programs/data at the moment, and over 1 Gb of virtual memory free. You should read up on memory use by Linux - allocation, deallocation, how these affect reporting by 'free', etc. - rick - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
