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what does mean the free colomne in out put of vmstat ? is it free espace of physical memory or of swap space on hard disk ?
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Look at the output carefully. The swap column has the swap space available. The free is the size of the free list in Kbytes.
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Report on usage of virtual and real memory.

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available swap space (Kbytes)

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But what is free list ? Is it on physical memory or on disk ?
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It is free memory (RAM) on your system.
Compare this number with the "free" memory number from the 4th row (Memory) of "top" utility.

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