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Old 02-20-2002, 06:28 AM   #1
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When i type free i get the following result. Could someone explain all the detail, specially the cached part.

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total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 190620 182884 7736 0 11052 87688
-/+ buffers/cache: 84144 106476
 
Old 02-20-2002, 06:41 AM   #2
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you have 190mb RAM, 182mb of it is in use somewhere, 7mb is completely untouched of the 182mb in use, 84mb is actively holding program data and such, whicl 106mb of it is storing old data cachches, which can help porgrams run faster if that data happens to be needed again.
 
Old 02-20-2002, 06:58 AM   #3
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One question. Lately this server just freeze and i have to switch of and on again. Run chkdsk etc... Ay way that this could be memory related and is there a way to free the memory that get cached?

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no, caching is a very good happy nice thing, and the kernel manages it automatically. search this site (or others) for more info.
 
  


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