[NCLUG] memory usage

[Matt Taggart]

Daniel Herrington writes...

>   1:49pm  up 14:03,  3 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.10, 0.23
> 60 processes: 59 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  8.3% user,  0.6% system,  5.4% nice,  0.6% idle
> Mem:   126732K av,  122636K used,    4096K free,       0K shrd,  3028K buff
> Swap:  329292K av,     528K used,  328764K free                 35144K cached
                                                                  ^^^^^

> Does this mean that 122636K of memory is _currently_ being used?  If
> so, then who's using it? 

35144K is being used by disk buffer cache. It's normal(and good) for all free 
memory on the system to be used by buffer cache.

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Matt Taggart        Linux Development Lab
taggart at fc.hp.com   HP Linux Systems Operation