Re: [cobalt-users] slow email

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens Kristian Søgaard wrote:

> No, it is not. You're simply reading these lines the wrong way.
> 
> What you normally refer to as "free memory" is _not_ what is listed in the
> column marked free. Instead you have to add up the numbers from the free
> column, the buffers and the cached column.
> 
> So this means you have 3204+39828+1632 = 44664 kb free.

Thanks for clarifying this for everyone, Jens.  In my attempt to answer
as many emails as I do, I didn't take the time to do a tutorial.  While
I understood (and still understand <smile> that "memory available in the
cache and the buffers is still marked as "used", I didn't take the time
to explain it, since "free memory" from either the mem or top command is
no doubt what the original poster was talking about.

I should have taken the time to teach and I didn't.  Thanks for taking
the time.

Jeff
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