What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 08:31:55AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 18 December 2011 18:07, Yedidyah Bar-David
> <linux-il at didi.bardavid.org> wrote:
> > In addition, I also check free memory before running the app, after
> > starting, several times, etc.
> 
> That's a good practice as well.
> 
> Do you do it manually or do you have some background tool which
> collects this data constantly for review
> (collectd/ganglia/zabbix/something else?)?

I personally use none, but can see the value of using some.
-- 
Didi