<div dir="ltr">Thanks Tim. I see what you mean. I didn't know of free(1).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Tim Schmidt <<a href="mailto:timschmidt@gmail.com">timschmidt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Jim Colton <<a href="mailto:jimcolt@gmail.com">jimcolt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thank you for writing Andy.<br>
><br>
> I see about 12M of 128M left while only Terminal-2 and the Dialer are<br>
> running.<br>
<br>
</div>You're not subtracting buffered and cached data. Linux aggressively<br>
buffers written data and caches read data for potential future use.<br>
This data is easily evicted from ram (usually without requiring<br>
anything to be written to more permanent storage), thus not negatively<br>
affecting performance.<br>
<br>
For various reasons, Linux's accounting of how much ram is in use<br>
isn't quite accurate, but you'll get a much closer number by running<br>
'free' in the terminal and looking at the "-/+ buffers/cache" line.<br>
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--tim<br>
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