free -m memstat memory problems

tlaude

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Hi,
on Debian squeeze my free -m shows
Code: total used free shared buffers cachedMem: 502 476 25 0 83 120-/+ buffers/cache: 272 230Swap: 871 3 868and my memstat shows this
Code: 36k( 32k): /sbin/init 1 156k( 132k): /sbin/udevd 354 529 530 354 529 530 354 529 530-------- 74804k ( 23216k)Why is the difference and why free shows 460MB used when I'm not running any significant process?
I even stopped Apache and it still shows high usage.
 
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