Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

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I have linux (Slackware 8.0 to be specific) installed on my computer with 384MB ram and a 768MB swap (actually slightly more but I told fdisk 768 when I created the partition). I ran 'free' in the ...

Several commands report on how much memory is installed and being used on Linux systems. You can be deluged with details or get a quick and easy answer, depending on ...

Memory management on Linux systems is complicated. Seeing high usage doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem. There are other things you should also consider. Running out of memory on a Linux ...

Work has had me setup a Nagios monitoring system for our servers and one of the metrics we would like to monitor is the memory usage of our servers, mainly for future capacity planning.<BR><BR>The ...