free—displays amount of free and used memory in the system
free [-b | -k | -m] [-o] [-s delay ] [-t] [-V]
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel.
Example A.32.
% free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 64148 54528 9620 45632 3460 29056 -/+ buffers/cache: 22012 42136 Swap: 96352 0 96352 |
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