Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <20001127011834.A11840@spathi.chuq.com>,
> 	Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> writes:
> > the Unified Buffer Cache project that I've been working on pretty much
> > forever has finally been integrated into -current.
> 
> Great. Is there a userland program to see how well it works? I can e.g.
> use "free" under Linux:
> 
> tron@gaia:~>free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         63228      62544        684       5256       7104      12100
> -/+ buffers/cache:      43340      19888
> Swap:       130748      36692      94056
> 
> 	Kind regards

It shouldn't be hard to knock up a program to display this info.  I've
not ever used Linux - is there a manpage somewhere (or perhaps even
source) to free to work out the exact meaning of some of those numbers?

I'm currently working in a change to systat to display the memory used
up by file buffers, and this should be committed soon.

Simon.
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