Free command conflict
 

Hi,

I was checking out the free command which shows the physical memory of linux.

# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3945 784 3160 0 64 393
# free -g
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3 0 3 0 0 0


# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2009 1469 540 0 147 305
# free -g
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1 1 0 0 0 0



Why is that such a huge different when i choose the megabyte and gigabyte view?

because there's a big difference between a gigabyte and a megabyte... abuot 1024 times.. :p

the gigabyte number is in whole gigabytes, not the nearest, so 2009 meg is 1.9something gig, so truncated to 1. it would only read 2 if it was 2048 meg or more.

haha...it's so misleading. well, guess i will stick to free -m instead. :)