Confirmed here on maverick, first reboot: (that's without even X running)
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3784952 1564912 2220040 0 34808 195148
-/+ buffers/cache: 1334956 2449996
second reboot:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3784952 574988 3209964 0 59636 195804
-/+ buffers/cache: 319548 3465404
Confirmed here on maverick, first reboot: (that's without even X running)
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3784952 1564912 2220040 0 34808 195148
-/+ buffers/cache: 1334956 2449996
second reboot:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3784952 574988 3209964 0 59636 195804
-/+ buffers/cache: 319548 3465404
looks sane again. (Using amd64)