Re: Linux mis-reporting memory

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Decibel! wrote:

> I'm finding this rather interesting report from top on a Debian box...
> how is it that linux thinks that 30G is cached?

top on Linux gives weird results when faced with situations where there's
shared memory involved.  I look at /proc/meminfo and run ipcs when I want
a better idea what's going on.  As good of an article on this topic as
I've found is http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_Linux_Memory_Management which
recommends using free to clarify how big the disk cache really is.

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