From: Arjen van der Meijden <acm@tweakers.net>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
To: 'Patrick Hatcher' <PHatcher@macys.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Memory question
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:49:17 +0200
Message-ID: <004901c33ced$98cf6430$3ac15e91@acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200306271254.51441.josh@agliodbs.com>
> The "used" figure in Top doesn't really tell you anything,
> since it includes
> the kernel buffer which tries to take up all available
> memory. If you
> actually look at the list of processes, I think you'll find
> that you're only
> using 1-2% of memory for applications.
>
> I'm not sure what app would show your "real" free memory.
The command 'free' shows what you like to know:
$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 1551480 1505656 45824 0 101400
1015540
-/+ buffers/cache: 388716 1162764
Swap: 524264 23088 501176
The used/free amounts on the second line are the interesting ones in
this case.
Arjen
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