Amount of cached memory in free -m differs from amount in /proc/meminfo
Issue
We are monitoring amount of cached memory in our RHEL-systems using the value in /proc/meminfo.
On our RHEL 7-systems the cached memory value in /proc/meminfo differs from the value that is printed using the "free -m" command.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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