[ale] Can someone help me understand memory usage?

[Chris Fowler]

A friend just installed 384 megs of memory in his Linux box.  It is still
swapping to disk.

Questions:

1) What is cahced memory?
2) What would there be memory in cache and the box be using swap?
3) Is there a such thing as free memory?

Thanks,
Chris Fowler


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