Re: [RFC] why the amount of cache from "free -m" and /proc/meminfo are different?

[Daniel K.]

On 02/05/2016 07:50 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote:
> [root@localhost ~]# free -m
>               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
> Mem:          48295         574       41658           8        6062       46344
> Swap:         24191           0       24191
> 
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/meminfo
> Buffers:               0 kB
> Cached:          3727824 kB
> Slab:            2480092 kB

free and meminfo seems to match up pretty well to me.

Are you really asking about display in MB vs kB?

Drop the -m switch to free.

Also, give 'man free' a spin, it explains what's behind the numbers.


Daniel K.