Hi,
I use ububtu and the question is: why is gnome System Monitor showing more then real memory free? I've a vmWare session opened and the guest system (win) is using a lot of memory (more then 1G), if I call "free" in the host OS (Linux-ubuntu) the result is:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2336560 2272108 64452 0 2140 1933692
-/+ buffers/cache: 336276 2000284
Swap: 4056328 158860 3897468

"free" tell me: 2273M ram used + 158M swap used (and I expect it is right)
but "System Monitor" tell me that I'm using only 343M Ram + 183M swap.

Any idea?
Thanks

Trust the 'free' output, but it's the -/+ buffers/cache line you want to look at to see what's really going on.

I don't know the inner workings of VMWare, but I's say that it's not actually allocating all the RAM it says it is, but instead waiting for the guest OS to actually use the RAM before requesting it from the host OS.

I could be wrong, though.

Dave

Thanks,
but virtual machine was using more then 1G of memory because a sw running into it was using more then 1G of ram, the problem was that System Monitor does not indicate it correctly (otherwise free show it correctly or more realistic).

:-)