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Memory usage value in web interface

Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:52 pm
by Wild Rat
Web interface is showing:

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Memory Usage:21.1MB / 60.5MB (34.9%)
while in Putty:

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/tmp$ free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:        61980        52516         9464            0         4092
 Swap:            0            0            0
Total:        61980        52516         9464
why so strange number in web interface?

Re: Memory usage value in web interface

Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 6:00 pm
by Eric
The number in the web interface doesn't include the buffers. This is memory that Linux uses to cache information that it doesn't absolutely need -- it can be freed without problem if needed.