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Hi All - I am running SuSe 11.3 on a Dell Precision T7500n Dual Six Core Processor workstation. The machine has 12GB memory. Here is the result of free -m ...
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Memory Leak?
Hi All - I am running SuSe 11.3 on a Dell Precision T7500n Dual Six Core Processor workstation. The machine has 12GB memory. Here is the result of free -m when nothing is running:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 12036 6696 5339 0 245 5567
-/+ buffers/cache: 884 11152
Swap: 26370 3 26367
Why is half my memory (7GB) being consumed by the OS. Is the cached memory accessible to my other processes, in addition to the "free" memory?
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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 12036 6696 5339 0 245 5567
-/+ buffers/cache: 884 11152
Swap: 26370 3 26367
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