What is /proc/meminfo telling me about real free memory?
On my system, none of the figures look similar to the total of used memory from ps aux; the "Cached" figure is close to what ps aux tells me is the amount of memory not being used by processes. Is this right, or just coincidence? (Or is ps aux a totally inaccurate guide and one of the figures below is the real free memory number?)
Iain.
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 08:47, Ian P. Christian wrote:
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 08:11, Ted Harding wrote:
... which very nicely gives:
$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 516436 kB MemFree: 42784 kB Buffers: 20248 kB Cached: 77360 kB SwapCached: 104652 kB Active: 277764 kB Inactive: 42760 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 516436 kB LowFree: 42784 kB SwapTotal: 1028152 kB SwapFree: 719308 kB Dirty: 576 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 253976 kB Slab: 145460 kB Committed_AS: 682280 kB PageTables: 4044 kB VmallocTotal: 516056 kB VmallocUsed: 6580 kB VmallocChunk: 509472 kB
Kind Regards,
Ian