total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2042520 1816496 226024 0 294344 486908 -/+ buffers/cache:

total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2042520 1816496 226024 0 294344 486908 -/+ buffers/cache: 1035244 1007276 Swap: 4194300 8172 4186128 I don't know what you are using to view your memory usage, but any decent tool should give you at least the information that `free` does (see above).