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xy

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Registered: 2015-04-08

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] free calculating available ram wrong?

Hey there,

because it might be a very simple (noob) question I'm posting it here:
On my notebook with 8GB ram, free -m puts out:

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           7898         986         134         110        6777        6539
Swap:          8102         122        7980

So... Everything looks fine - at first. total = used + free + buff/cache is true, as it should be, but total = used + available is false. There are ~373 MB missing...
Is this a bug? A feature? I thought I knew what free displays o.o

Last edited by xy (2015-05-01 15:52:44)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: [SOLVED] free calculating available ram wrong?

Not all caches are droppable, thus the recent addition of "available".

Last edited by lucke (2015-05-01 14:23:30)

xy

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Registered: 2015-04-08

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] free calculating available ram wrong?

Oooh thanks, yeah, didnt think about this earlier! Shame on me
Easy solution though.