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  • free command shared memory reported under cached

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    I noticed something different on one of our servers and wanted to get some thoughts on this. free command reports about 92G of shared memory but all of it is report under cached column too.

    So should shared memory be reported under cached?

    free -m
                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
    Mem:        129059     128674        385      93411        931     123097
    -/+ buffers/cache:       4645     124414
    Swap:        16383        168      16215
    

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