[glug-t] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (FREE)

From: Bharathi Subramanian <sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: VEC-FOSS <vecfoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, GNU/Linux Users Group - Trichy <glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, GNU/Linux User Group of TCE <glugot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:02:56 +0530 (IST)

One Day One GNU/Linux Command
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free -- Display the memory utilization info.

Summary:

Displays the total amount of free and used physical memory and swap
space in the system, as well as the buffers & cache consumed by the
kernel.

Examples:

$ free -- Display the mem info in KB.

$ free -m -- Display the mem info in MB.

$ free -m -t -- Display the total mem info.

$ free -s 2 -- Display the mem info for every 2Sec.

$ free -s 2 -c 5 -- Display mem info for every 2Sec but only 5 times.

$ cat /proc/meminfo -- This is the original info which is used by free
                       command for the report.

Read: man free

HTH :)
-- 
Bharathi S

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