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Available = "Free" (unused) + Cached

Available = "Free" (unused) + Cached

Posted Jun 13, 2006 6:57 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467)
In reply to: Available = "Free" (unused) + Cached by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Live CDs Part II: Desktop Replacements

Another, more reliable indicator of being truly out of memory is when vmstat takes 5 minutes paging itself in before outputting each line :)

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