Memory Usage reading is not correct

xbaha

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i am reading the memory showing

Server load 0.25 (1 CPU)
Memory Used 34.12% (348,192 of 1,020,388)

while on ssh top command it's reading

Cpu(s): 16.0%us, 1.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 81.3%id, 0.7%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1020388k total, 826484k used, 193904k free, 45852k buffers

snapshot was taken at the same time.

which reading is correct???
 

dalem

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They both are correct

you need run the command
free
to see the calculation that's showing in whm Service Status specifically the -/+ buffers/cache: line free column