On 11/13/11 8:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > [harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 16035 15366 668 0 118 12951 > -/+ buffers/cache: 2296 13738 > Swap: 2047 0 2047 to better explain that output... the numbers you really want to look at are the -/+ buffers/caches lines... At the moment of that output, this machine had 2.2GB used, and 13.7GB free out of 16GB total. 12.9GB is currently holding cached files, but those pages can be reused instantly, they are all available for reuse. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast