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On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 12:56:07AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Well, as you said you know that buffer/cached are not locked in. If
/proc/meminfo would be rubbish like you seem to imply in the first
line, why would we ever bother to export that information and even
waste time writing a binary that parse it for admins?
Actually you better check meminfo or free before starting a 1G of Xen!!
Repeated drop caches + free can help.
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