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From: Nicolas <linux@1g6.biz>
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Subject: memory shown with free
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:50:56 +0200
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Hello,

Can somebody explain me this numbers ?
The cache number seems false isn't it ?

Nicolas.

(kernel 2.5.75)
[root@hal9003 npa]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034372     336472     697900          0      27272      98820
-/+ buffers/cache:     210380     823992
Swap:            0          0          0
[root@hal9003 npa]# find / > /dev/null
[root@hal9003 npa]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034372     909520     124852          0      84464      98820
-/+ buffers/cache:     726236     308136
Swap:            0          0          0