Messages in this thread | | | From | (Oleg Zabluda) | Subject | New /proc/meminfo: What is cached? | Date | 13 Mar 1996 00:38:59 GMT |
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In newer kernels /proc/meminfo contains new number cached:
(ttyp2)marianna:~> cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 15380480 14794752 585728 8298496 217088 5324800 Swap: 33509376 4829184 28680192 MemTotal: 15020 kB MemFree: 572 kB MemShared: 8104 kB Buffers: 212 kB Cached: 5200 kB SwapTotal: 32724 kB SwapFree: 28008 kB
What is it? Do I understand correctly that
MemShared - Cached = <user processes shared memory>?
Thank you for your answer.
Oleg.
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