different memory estimates

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello,

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Brian J. Tarricone<brian at tarricone.org> wrote:
> Hmm, that's a little odd. Try looking at /proc/meminfo.  You'll have to do
> some math to subtract out buffers and cache from the used memory figure, but
>
I did the math. At the moment when I opened /proc/meminfo, taskmanager
reported 304 MB and systemload 312 MB. The proc file reported this:
MemTotal:       482784 kB
MemFree:         11408 kB
Buffers:          7932 kB
Cached:         151776 kB

(482784-7932-151776)/1024=315 MB

Unless I'm wrong in math, I would suspect systemload is more accurate.
Liviu