[svlug] Need a good authoritative article.

[Chris Miller]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Chris Miller
>  <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Try the -o switch on free.  That should subtract the buffers and show
>  >  you how much is really being used.
>
>  You might have that backwards:
>
>  <quote>
>  The  -o  switch  disables  the display of a "buffer adjusted" line.
>  If the -o option is not specified, free subtracts buffer memory from
>  the used memory and adds it to the free memory reported.
>  </quote>
>
>  For example, the amount of memory that is really "free" for use on my
>  system is 586,368:
>
>  $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>  Mem:       1024540     993892      30648          0     103716     452004
>  -/+ buffers/cache:     438172     586368
>  Swap:      2047992      35684    2012308
>
>  $ free -o
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>  Mem:       1024540     993892      30648          0     103716     452004
>  Swap:      2047992      35684    2012308

Yeah, my brain flipped a bit.  Sorry 'bout that.

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