Buffered memory used ?

[Donovan]

Hi, on my webserver running Debian linux / apache I have 1 gig of ram.

From this memory 500 megs are used by buffered memory and growing each day.
Will the buffered memory be cleared out as Linux needs memory for "real" work ?

I mean when i'll run out of memory because of the buffered memory, what will linux do ?

Thanks,
Donov

[bdg1983]

Linux uses any extra memory for it's buffers/cache or whatever and releases the memory as required for other programs (real work) etc.