A question about 'free' and memory

thomas2004ch · 11-19-2009, 07:04 AM

I check the memory and get as follow.

It seems there is little memory left. But one can see the free buffers is still very big. Should increase the memory?

Code:

[root@s003ap06 iplanet6]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8199576    8158592      40984          0     309740    7149292
-/+ buffers/cache:     699560    7500016
Swap:      2096472          0    2096472

TBC Cosmo · 11-19-2009, 07:40 AM

Here is a quick explanation.

And here is something that may shed some light.