From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:00:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49bf44f10907300600h1b6579dfmb4ea206de9b34243@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090730133345.667c79c0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
>> OK, that's right. How can I find out if 4GB RAM (the current amount)
>> is enough? From what I understand of how Linux handles memory, it
>> will fill it up as quickly as possible, and then free it as necessary.
>> This makes it difficult to determine how much RAM is necessary from
>> watching top.
>
> Use free to see how much of the memory is used by buffers and caches.
Thank you Neil. On one of my systems, does this tell me that although
I'm using ~952MB, I'm really only using ~474MB and I don't need swap:
# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1028780 952240 76540 0 146984 330516
-/+ buffers/cache: 474740 554040
Swap: 2008116 80944 1927172
- Grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-26 10:46 [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1? Grant
2009-07-26 16:04 ` Stroller
2009-07-27 12:44 ` Grant
2009-07-27 17:43 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:33 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-27 18:42 ` James Ausmus
2009-07-28 17:52 ` Grant
2009-07-28 19:01 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 15:20 ` Grant
2009-07-29 17:25 ` Florian Philipp
2009-07-30 12:17 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 13:00 ` Grant [this message]
2009-07-30 13:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 13:47 ` Grant
2009-07-30 14:05 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 15:45 ` Grant
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 14:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-30 15:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 15:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2009-07-30 13:10 ` Alex Schuster
2009-07-30 14:18 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:03 ` Grant
2009-07-30 16:07 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-30 16:12 ` Grant
2009-07-31 16:07 ` Grant
2009-07-29 18:15 ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-30 11:41 ` Stroller
2009-07-31 17:31 ` Grant
2009-08-03 16:00 ` Grant
2009-07-30 12:53 ` Grant
2009-07-30 11:46 ` Stroller
2009-07-29 8:12 ` Nevynxxx
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