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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:35:41
Message-Id: 20061214182749.35839745@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Memory Usage by Grant
1 On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:48:25 -0800, Grant wrote:
2
3 > From what I understand, Linux memory isn't freed up until it is full.
4 > Is there a way to find out how much memory is actively in use?
5
6 The free command.
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8 $ free
9 total used free shared buffers cached
10 Mem: 1028164 928764 99400 0 28228 468768
11 -/+ buffers/cache: 431768 596396
12 Swap: 1556168 210476 1345692
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16 Neil Bothwick
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