Re: Free memory, include "cached"?

["Subramani Venkatesh" <subbu31mani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Try running "top" command, you will be able to see Available free memory.

Thanks,
Subbu

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Gregoire Banderet <gregoire.banderet@xxxxxx
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have to report the amount of FreeMem on my embedded system. The rootfs
> is in RAM. I use /proc/meminfo.
> I started by doing : freemem = MemFree + Buffers + Cached
> But I realized (tell me if I'm wrong) that my rootfs filesystems is
> counted in "Cached".
> Part of the memory in "Cached" can be allocated, so I should add it as
> Free Memory, but part of it is my rootfs (i.e. really used).
> How should I compute freemem ?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
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