Re: Stable Alpha on 2.2? How do we build a stable install?

[Jaap Hogenberg <Jaap Hogenberg nl abnamro com>]

Hi

The "free" command shows you how much of the memory is in use by buffers 
/ cached,
and will report the actual amount of free memory.

HTH
Jaap


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> Perhaps I'm misreading the output of top, but having only 5M free and
> hitting swap just looks peculiar to me on a marginally loaded machine
> with 196M of physical memory.  Maybe I should go read up on the
> expected behavior.

That's not unusual at all. At some point in the past the machine
dipped into swap. If those pages aren't subsequently used, they stay
in swap.

The "5M free" number is a fiction. All the memory used for disk cache
is actually also available. This is a Frequently Asked Question for
*all* modern Unix versions with a unified vm.

-- g

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