memory usage

[Drew Taylor]

I'm running a kernel 2.4.2-2 (stock from RH 7.1) and am wondering what is 
the difference between buffers and cached memory? I added 128MB and was 
surprised to see so little memory free, even knowing that Linux does 
aggressive caching.

[drew at nephi]$ cat /proc/meminfo
         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  195735552 194052096  1683456        0 13651968 122585088
Swap: 205590528   290816 205299712
MemTotal:       191148 kB
MemFree:          1644 kB
MemShared:           0 kB

Thanks,
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