How can I check RAM of my laptop?

Question

RAM: 2143MiB / 3798MiB

What does this means ? I cannot even know about my laptop's RAM

Where did you see this? Why is this tagged [tag:graphics]? – muru Dec 12 '17 at 07:57 — muru, Dec 12 '17 at 07:57

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '17 at 07:43

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On the command line you can use:

free

to check your (free/available) RAM. Also do:

man free

answered Dec 12 '17 at 07:43

you can also run free -g and it will show you in GiB or free -m will be MiB... you will look at total used and available just a note tho that it may be just slightly less than you are are supposed to have .. thats normal .. like yours says 3798MiB .. that would be 4GB ram – John Orion Dec 12 '17 at 07:46

dufte · Answer 2 · 2018-04-23T06:16:48.413

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You could as well use either top (preinstalled) or htop to monitor your memory usage.

It adds some details free doesn't (context to running processes)

edited Apr 23 '18 at 06:16

answered Dec 12 '17 at 08:01

dufte

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