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altiris

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Registered: 2014-12-23

Posts: 50

free -m command not showing buffers/cache

When I run free command (-m is what I mostly use) the -/+ buffers/cache line does not appear, it appears under its own little category. Why is this happening? Every other distro, Slackware, Debian, CentOS, show a buffers/cache line. I have a swap partition and I know it is on because I see it on with gnome-system-monitor. Is this cateogry the same as the line? It seems a lot less.

Here is an example,

free -m
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:     7947        3706        211        102      4029            4048
Swap:     8243        12           8231

my system has total 8GB memory.

Last edited by altiris (2015-10-02 16:23:02)

Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 753

Re: free -m command not showing buffers/cache

Package procps-ng in Arch is at version 3.3.11, while Ubuntu in 15.10 still uses 3.3.9.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: free -m command not showing buffers/cache

Did you run 'top' recently?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189757