Why isn´t linux using all the available memory
- by Devator
I have a linux VPS which has 256 MB of memory (free only finds 248 though). However it seems I still have 85 MB free, but it's swapping for 255 MB. Why is this?
free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 248 245 3 0 41 40
-/+ buffers/cache: 163 85
Swap: 1971 255 1716