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From: BH <xcp@brewt.org>
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Subject: "free" buffer field
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What does it mean when the field marked XXXXX is negative?

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1028936      42792     986144          0       1072      24512
-/+ buffers/cache:      XXXXX    1011728
Swap:       787176          0     787176

(This was not the output at the time)

System is 2.4.12 with 1GB ram, P3 550 BX chipset.  I had a mounted ro NTFS
playing a 100mb mp3 with mpg123.  The Mem free field was rapidly declining
during this, and XXXXX was becoming more and more negative.  It all
stopped when I killed mpg123 and umounted the NTFS.

Thanks.

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