asked on 9/7/2013

memory usuage

[root@new-host 2 ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 997 255 742 0 1 17
-/+ buffers/cache: 235 761
Swap: 2015 132 1883

1) Can some one explains whats is the difference between buffer/cache in 1st and 2nd line.

2) also i noticed swap is used 132 M when we have 742 MB free MB available. Please advise.

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Rajesh Nandanwar

9/9/2013

ded9

9/7/2013

Check this article

http://nilesh-joshi.blogspot.in/2010/04/interpreting-output-of-free-command.html

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