# View the memory inconsistency

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/view-the-memory-inconsistency/25532>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [May 6, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/view-the-memory-inconsistency/25532 "2014-05-06T06:32:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![andyleigood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d07c76/32.png) [@andyleigood](https://forums.suse.com/u/andyleigood)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 6:32am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/view-the-memory-inconsistency/25532/1 "2014-05-06T06:32:54Z")

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I encountered a strange problem。  
When I used “free -m” show the memory use status,It’s show have used 7GB memory,but use “ps -aux” show just used 4GB memory.  
As you know ,when I used “free -m” show the memory status,I had Minus “buffers” and “cached”,caculated the used memory.  
So I don’t know remain 3GB memory is used by which program.

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**Author:** ![mikewillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@mikewillis](https://forums.suse.com/u/mikewillis)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2014, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/view-the-memory-inconsistency/25532/2 "2014-05-06T10:48:20Z")

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How much RAM do you have in total? From what you’ve written I’m it sounds like 7GB, but 7GB seems is an unusual amount and if you have a total of 7GB then you have accounted for its use.

Does [http://www.linuxatemyram.com](http://www.linuxatemyram.com) help?