how to interpret free memory
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1022792 998124 24668 0 63092 515780
-/+ buffers/cache: 419252 603540
Swap: 2097144 8180 2088964
I'm confused about what free/shared/cached and swap means.
To confuse things further, if I look at running processes with webmin, it says at the same time I ran the check above, "Real memory: 1022792 kB total / 601704 kB free Swap space: 2097144 kB total / 2088964 kB free"
So, according to the webmin stats, there's plenty of "real" memory, but the "free" command seems to show that I have a memory problem.
So, if anyone would be so kind to explain what all the terms mean, and how to interpret them, I'd appreciate it.
(OR direct me to a link where I can find the info!)
