[ILUG-BOM] Pls suggest some lightweight desktop
Philip S Tellis
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Wed Jul 18 17:51:02 IST 2001
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Nikhil Joshi wrote:
> total used *free* shared buffers cached
> Mem: 60 59 1 0 1 29
> -/+ buffers/cache: 29 31
> Swap: 156 1 155
Add free buffers to free memory to get actual values. Therefore, your
free is 32, not 1. This makes sense. The kernel allocates all free
memory to buffers and cache, because there's no sense in leaving it
unused. If you have 32 MB free memory, then what was the point in
buying it? When any program requires memory, it will be allocated from
the buffers.
Philip
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