Can one of you please explain the output of "free"?

From: Srini Amble (samble_at_xopworks.com)
Date: 11/03/03

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    I have Red Hat 7.3 running on my server. I have disabled all my
    applications with the exception of one application from "Intel". I
    executed "free" command to check on the memory usage. I have 512 MB of
    RAM. The amount of "free" memory keeps reducing while the "buffers"
    count keeps increasing.

    1. How do I track which process is responsible for creating additional
    buffers because of which the free memory is decreasing?
    2. Do I have to be concerned when the free memory turns about to be too low?
    3. Is there anything I can do to keep the memory usage in check?

    Thanks for any useful pointer.

    Srini 

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