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05-25-2009 #1
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What's eating my RAM?
Code:total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3010 2835 174 0 121 1490 -/+ buffers/cache: 1224 1786 Swap: 2000 130 1870
How does it work?
thanks
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05-26-2009 #2
Actually memory is not used by application, but it is used for disk caching. If memory is not fully utilized by kernel than it is wasted, but by keeping data in cache when an application needs data again it can be provided faster. If you want to see the memory from the perspective of the application you should look at +- buffers/cache line, the free column of this line shows you the memory that can be used for applications.
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05-26-2009 #3
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Ok, thanks it makes more sense now.