Free (command)

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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

Activities

  1. Emptying the buffers cache: free -h && sync && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free -h[2]
  2. Use fio with direct=0 to fill up your cache.

See also

  • ↑ http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/free.1.html
  • ↑ https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87908/how-do-you-empty-the-buffers-and-cache-on-a-linux-system
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