[H-GEN] Memory useage

[Andrew Meaden]

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D'oh!

andrew at brisvegas:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1265       1232         33         89        920        228
-/+ buffers/cache:         84       1181
Swap:          486          0        486

I have a feeling case 2.) is more accurate.

-- Andrew, hoping that the formatting wasn't totally lost on that 
copy'n'paste

Robert Brockway wrote:

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>On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Andrew Meaden wrote:
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>  
>
>>600MB free out of 1256MB ... but I suspect we don't make it work for
>>it's money very hard.
>>    
>>
>
>This suggests either
>
>1) It is a _very_ lightly loaded box - ie, it can't even be bothered
>using more ram as cache.
>
>or
>
>2) A really big app just exited.  After an application closes its memory
>is freed and may later be used by another app or cache, etc.  For a period
>of time the free memory will appear significantly larger than normal.  If
>there is no great call for the memory it may stay free for sometime.
>
>Cheers,
>	-Rob
>
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