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Re: is this normal

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Nov 13 23:42:54 1998

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:55:11 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Iztok Polanic wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jan Carlson wrote:
>
> > Why is  'used' equal to  'shared+buffers+cache-8124' ?
> >
> > $ free
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:         95460      77720      17740      29264      19876      36704
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      21140      74320
> > Swap:        32124          0      32124
> >
> Hello !!!
>
> I know you're going to get furius, but who cares. Which one is faster:
>
>         shared
>         buffers
>         cached
>
> Thank you!

:-)

Does anybody know whether what the 8124 represents, or whether it's a bug?

Each time I run free, the discrepancy is the same.

--

Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2





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