free is a command to view various memory stats.
The command free is used to show various memory statistics including:
Total memory
Used memory
Free memory
Shared memory
Buffers
etc.
See man free for more information.
Questions tagged [free]
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why is /usr/bin/free opening liblzma?
I see the following when running strace free:
hans@devad22:~$ strace free 2>&1 | grep openat
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libprocps.so.8", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) =…
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what will happen If RAM set to 1000 from 1024?
While I am looking at man page of free I came across
--si Use power of 1000 not 1024.
So from that line we can say that from 1GB (1024MB) of RAM it will use only 1000MB of RAM. But why are we supposed to do like that? where we can use this ?…
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I want to use Ubuntu desktop edition for free in my organization. Do I have to pay for that?
I want to install Ubuntu desktop OS on all my laptops at work, So I don't want to invest for support and for OS as well. I heard that Linux is the free solution for operating system requirement generally, but I am seeing it converting in to a paid…
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I have an organization and i want install ubuntu?
I have my own an organization and i want to replace some system with ubuntu,
do i have to buy ubuntu? Because i have heard ubuntu is free for use!!
Thanks
ITTECH
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Memory doesn't make sense
I just checked how much free space I have left on my hard disk using
:~$ free -t
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 4063056 1075744 2987312 0 65064 551704
-/+ buffers/cache: …
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