The free command displays the total amount of
physical memory and swap space for the system as well as the amount of
memory that are used, free, shared, in kernel buffers, and cached.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256812 240668 16144 105176 50520 81848
-/+ buffers/cache: 108300 148512
Swap: 265032 780 264252 |
The command free -m shows the same information in
megabytes, which are easier to read.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 250 235 15 102 49 79
-/+ buffers/cache: 105 145
Swap: 258 0 258 |
If you would like to use a graphical interface with
free, you can use GNOME System
Monitor. To start it, go to the Button => =>
=> or type gtop at a shell
prompt. Then choose the Memory Usage tab.
