Re: bum top and free?

Billy Harvey (Billy.Harvey@thrillseeker.net)
Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:55:02 -0500 (EST)

System Administrator writes:
>
> just booted kernel 2.2.2 with the pre2 patch and here's what free shows
> currently:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 128188 124524 3664 369764 3104 19752
> -/+ buffers/cache: 101668 26520
> Swap: 40156 856 39300
>
> notice the ungawdly 'shared' number
> top reports the same thing.
> I'm runnning procps-1.2.9
>
> am I missing something?

The latest version of procps I've seen is 1.9.0. I generally use the
latest debian packages, so there may be an even newer version than
that.

root@rhino /root> free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 144848 138236 6612 31332 24076 50120
-/+ buffers/cache: 64040 80808
Swap: 130748 9148 121600

This is with linux-2.2.1-ac5.

Billy

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