Re: Why OS takes so much memory?
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 08/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:31:33 -0000
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In comp.os.linux.setup John <jchen@gov.mb.ca> suggested:
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> Do you also know the meaning of used mem, and how it is counted?
Used mem is simply including shared, buffers and cached memory.
'free' simply looks in /proc/meminfo, try 'cat /proc/meminfo'.
> I really want to find out the relationships among those reported items.
> I checked man page and other info available to me, but it's still a
> puzzle to me. Maybe I am a bit greedy.
There are a bunch of tools available most come with the procps
package, 'top' might be interesting and 'man proc' in addition.
Good luck
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