How to find free memory available for use by applications?

Andrew Parker gbofspam at gmail.com
Mon Aug 17 11:50:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Shashank
Rachamalla<shashank.r38 at wipro.com> wrote:
> Is the below calculation valid?
>
> Total Free Memory Available for Applications = free + buffers + cached

Cache is available to applications, yes, but I don't think that you
can included all of the buffer space. I'd be inclined to leave it out.




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