a machine without cache/buffers ?

[Lior Kaplan]

Any one has an explanation for such a situation ?

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior at gmail.com> wrote:

> I got an output for the free command from a friend with the comment this is
> weired, as the machine
> doesn't use any cache or buffers.
>
> total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        524288     419624     104664          0          0          0
> -/+ buffers/cache:     419624     104664
> Swap:            0          0          0
>
> I too didn't see any Linux machine in this situation. Any idea?
>
> I know cleaning the buffers with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches but no disabling
> them at all.
>
> Kaplan
>
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