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From: Randall Parker 

After learning about the ability to cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and see lots of
info about USB devices on one's machine I got to poking around the whole /proc
scene. See below.

Why is MemFree so low? I have 1 gig. VmallocTotal is about a tenth of that.
Also, doing
   > ps aux
  reports that FireFox is using 8.6% of the total, Thunderbird 4.1%,
/usr/bin/X is using 3.6%, Seamonkey 2.7%, and everthing else is less
than 2% each. So what is the memory assigned to?

[randall{at}localhost download]$ cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal:      1034972 kB
MemFree:         13680 kB
Buffers:          4424 kB
Cached:         799788 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         587768 kB
Inactive:       396204 kB
HighTotal:      130524 kB
HighFree:          256 kB
LowTotal:       904448 kB
LowFree:         13424 kB
SwapTotal:     2031608 kB
SwapFree:      2031380 kB
Dirty:            1620 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:      179780 kB
Mapped:          71784 kB
Slab:            25520 kB
PageTables:       3236 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:   2549092 kB
Committed_AS:   404552 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:      3416 kB
VmallocChunk:   111044 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
HugePages_Rsvd:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB
[randall{at}localhost download]$

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