Adding RAM

[Dotan Cohen]

On 12/10/06, Gunner <gcarst at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Try to run a:
>   cat /proc/meminfo
>
>  to see how much you have in use..

dotancohen at ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1002168 kB
MemFree:         17528 kB
Buffers:        110996 kB
Cached:         657812 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         362684 kB
Inactive:       569856 kB
HighTotal:       98240 kB
HighFree:          132 kB
LowTotal:       903928 kB
LowFree:         17396 kB
SwapTotal:     1413648 kB
SwapFree:      1413648 kB
Dirty:             116 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         230896 kB
Slab:            40876 kB
CommitLimit:   1914732 kB
Committed_AS:   384764 kB
PageTables:       1904 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      4964 kB
VmallocChunk:   109348 kB

What is 'inactive' and 'dirty' memory? Should I be concerned with that?

Dotan Cohen

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