How does landscape calculate free memory?
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I'm trying to debug an OOM situation in an Ubuntu 12.04 server, and looking at the Memory graphs in Landscape, I noticed that there wasn't any serious memory usage spike spike. Then I looked at the output of the free
command and I wasn't quite sure how both memory usage results relate to each other.
Here's landscape's output on the server:
$ landscape-sysinfo
System load: 0.0 Processes: 93
Usage of /: 5.6% of 19.48GB Users logged in: 1
Memory usage: 26% IP address for eth0: -
Swap usage: 2%
Then I run the free
command and I get:
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 486 381 105 0 4 165
-/+ buffers/cache: 212 274
Swap: 255 7 248
I can understand the 2% swap usage, but where does the 26% memory usage come from?
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