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<code>free</code> <ref>http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/free.1.html</ref> display amount of free and used [[memory]] in the system | <code>free</code> <ref>http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/free.1.html</ref> display amount of free and used [[memory]] in the system | ||
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| − | free -h | + | free -h |
| + | total used free shared buff/cache available | ||
| + | Mem: 503G 21G 43G 2.1M 438G 478G | ||
| + | Swap: 975M 50M 925M | ||
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| + | free | ||
total used free shared buff/cache available | total used free shared buff/cache available | ||
| − | Mem: | + | Mem: 528029540 22891532 48868648 2128 456269360 501718128 |
| − | Swap: | + | Swap: 999420 51456 947964 |
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| − | free | + | free -h |
total used free shared buff/cache available | total used free shared buff/cache available | ||
| − | Mem: | + | Mem: 985M 468M 79M 65M 437M 302M |
| − | Swap: | + | [[Swap]]: 0B 0B 0B |
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== Activities == | == Activities == | ||
Revision as of 10:24, 10 May 2020
free [1] display amount of free and used memory in the system
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 503G 21G 43G 2.1M 438G 478G
Swap: 975M 50M 925M
free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 528029540 22891532 48868648 2128 456269360 501718128
Swap: 999420 51456 947964
free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 985M 468M 79M 65M 437M 302M
Swap: 0B 0B 0B
Activities
- Emptying the buffers cache:
free -h && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free -h[2] - Use
fiowithdirect=0to fill up your cache.
See also
syncsar -r- RAM and filesystem
- Swap,
swapon,swapoff,mkswap,swaplabel,free,sar -r,sar -S,sar -W,vmstat,vm.swappiness,/proc/swaps,/etc/fstab, Add a swap disk,systemd.swap - linux-ftools
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