Maybe add a new (end user-friendly, preferably graphical) tool to report memory usage the user friendly way? Then vmstat can be left as is, and end users can be

Maybe add a new (end user-friendly, preferably graphical) tool to report memory usage the user friendly way? Then vmstat can be left as is, and end users can be directed to use the new tool. By the way, this behavior is not Linux-specific. AIX and other Unices have been doing this forever. And end users (who should have known better, BTW) would complain too. The only machine that I remember as showing a sizable percentage of the memory as "free" was a just-imaged top of the line server. Half a gig or RAM, and almost all empty! -- this was the early '90s. Edit: Just noticed that graphical tools that report memory usage in user-friendly terms already exist (gnome system monitor). My bad, I always use vmstat and sar myself, and only recently found out about /proc/NNNNN/status