Using meminfo information

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 12:54 -0700, Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> I am trying to determine how much memory really is in use on the
> system for executing commands.  Would going by "Active" be the most
> accurate? 
>  
> There is 4.8GB of RAM available for processes beyond the OS, of that
> 3.2GB are in use with 1.9GB free?
>  
> MemTotal:      6009532 kB
> MemFree:        298016 kB
> Buffers:        190068 kB
> Cached:        4842408 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:        3256152 kB
> Inactive:      1919492 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:      6009532 kB
> LowFree:        298016 kB
> SwapTotal:     8388600 kB
> SwapFree:      8388596 kB
> Dirty:              48 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> Mapped:         126552 kB
> Slab:           510696 kB
> CommitLimit:  11393364 kB
> Committed_AS:   198068 kB
> PageTables:       3052 kB
> VmallocTotal: 2147483647 kB
> VmallocUsed:      6144 kB
> VmallocChunk: 2147477355 kB

Yes, active is really the number that's involved in programs (code, BSS
and heap).

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