What is "residual memory"? Can anyone explain?

[Amos Shapira]

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?)?

--Amos