The command to see what’s available is:
free –m This will show you the free space in megabytes
Here’s the output:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 48299 26358 21940 0 647 19719
-/+ buffers/cache: 5992 42306
Swap: 4095 0 4095
So, the swap line shows you that you have 4 gig of swap free…excellent.
For the amount of free memory, you want to look at the -/+ buffers/cache line. So, looking at that line, you have 21940 megabytes (21 gig) free.
Keep in mind the cached value and the buffers value will be reclaimed by the system is needed. You actually want a large cached value. I’m not sure what’s stored in it but….
Caution ! Running out of SWAP area may cause the server to hang
Rupam
free –m This will show you the free space in megabytes
Here’s the output:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 48299 26358 21940 0 647 19719
-/+ buffers/cache: 5992 42306
Swap: 4095 0 4095
So, the swap line shows you that you have 4 gig of swap free…excellent.
For the amount of free memory, you want to look at the -/+ buffers/cache line. So, looking at that line, you have 21940 megabytes (21 gig) free.
Keep in mind the cached value and the buffers value will be reclaimed by the system is needed. You actually want a large cached value. I’m not sure what’s stored in it but….
Caution ! Running out of SWAP area may cause the server to hang
Rupam
