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

[Eric Bohm <bohm gate csgeeks org>]

>>>>> "Jaap" == Jaap Hogenberg <Jaap.Hogenberg@nl.abnamro.com> writes:

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

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

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

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


Thanks for the tip.

free says:
            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        192232     187440       4792      72776      21008      77008
-/+ buffers/cache:      89424     102808
Swap:       170256       3192     167064

which is a lot more like what I was expecting.  Guess need to go RTFM
a bit.