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Lillian Jekyll
@jekylllillian 17, Jul 2023 12:00 AM
memory used by Linux
How can you find out how much memory Linux is using?
answers 2
Answer 1
Robert Gearhart
@robert_gearhart 21, Jul 2023 04:28 PM
You can also use commands
free - m
vmstat
top
htop
to find current memory usage
Answer 2
Robert Gearhart
@robert_gearhart 21, Jul 2023 04:28 PM
From a command shell, use the “concatenate” command: cat /proc/meminfo for memory usage information. You should see a line starting something like Mem: 64655360, etc. This is the total memory Linux thinks it has available to use.