William Warren wrote: > your mahcine is fine. swap is at zero. You have most of your ram > being used by cache. This is also normal for a linux machine. If an > application needs to ram being used for file caching the kernel will > clear out that portion of cache and the program will have access to it. I finally figured that out this morning. I see how the free command gives me better insight to my computer than top. At least for how my memory is managing with my apps. > > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Below is both results... >> >> William Warren wrote: >>> easier way....log in as root and type the word free to get a much >>> slimmer version of that information. If the numbers look odd(after >>> posting them here) then the more expansive option below is needed. >>> >>> Alfred von Campe wrote: >>>>> I install centos 5 on a HD while it is in a Compaq with 256Mb >>>>> memory. After install, i am in graphics mode (Gnome) and top >>>>> reports not quite all 256Mb used. >>>>> >>>>> Then I move the HD to a decTOP with 512Mb memory. I am running >>>>> non-graphics (init 3). I ssh into the unit and top reports not >>>>> quite all of that used..... >>>>> >>>>> So what ate up more than 256Mb memory (X is not running)? >>>>> >>>>> Perhaps there is something I did not clean up properly wrt the move. >>>> >>>> Have you done any I/O on the system? The memory could be in use by >>>> buffers. Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo. Your real free >>>> memory should be the sum of MemFree + Buffers + Cached. >> total used free shared buffers cached >> Mem: 495228 488440 6788 0 21404 310364 >> -/+ buffers/cache: 156672 338556 >> Swap: 1572856 0 1572856 >> >> MemTotal: 495228 kB >> MemFree: 12468 kB >> Buffers: 22328 kB >> Cached: 301152 kB >> SwapCached: 0 kB >> Active: 272448 kB >> Inactive: 182272 kB >> HighTotal: 0 kB >> HighFree: 0 kB >> LowTotal: 495228 kB >> LowFree: 12468 kB >> SwapTotal: 1572856 kB >> SwapFree: 1572856 kB >> Dirty: 21356 kB >> Writeback: 0 kB >> AnonPages: 131252 kB >> Mapped: 36676 kB >> Slab: 20784 kB >> PageTables: 3312 kB >> NFS_Unstable: 0 kB >> Bounce: 0 kB >> CommitLimit: 1820468 kB >> Committed_AS: 394416 kB >> VmallocTotal: 524280 kB >> VmallocUsed: 3080 kB >> VmallocChunk: 521072 kB >> HugePages_Total: 0 >> HugePages_Free: 0 >> HugePages_Rsvd: 0 >> Hugepagesize: 4096 kB >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >