Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
MemFree
MemFree
normally represents the sum of
LowFree
+
HighFree
memory in kilobytes on the
Intel x86 platform. For ARM, this simply represents the amount of memory available to
user space programs.
Model B
Model A
MemFree
340,228 KB
151,352 KB
The Model B has 332.25 MB for application programs, which amounts to about 64.9%
(Rev 2.0). The Model A values indicate about 57.7% of the memory is available.
Buffers
This value represents temporary buffers used within the kernel for raw disk blocks, and so
forth. This value should not get much larger than about 20 MB or so.
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Model B
Model A
Buffers
14,408 KB
7,008 KB
Cached
This value represents the read file content that has been cached (page cache). This does
not include the content reported for
SwapCached
.
Model B
Model A
Cached
58,532 KB
20,640 KB
SwapCached
The value shown for
SwapCached
represents memory that was swapped out and is now
swapped back in. For efficiency, these memory pages are still represented by swap disk
space, should they be needed again.
Model B
Model A
SwapCached
0 KB
0 KB
