[plug] Commands for mem usage

Leon Brooks leonb at bounce.networx.net.au
Sat Aug 14 23:55:26 WST 1999


Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> What are the commands used to find out how much RAM and swap space is available?
> I am interested in the command more than a GUI solution (such as xosview etc).

"free" for RAM (also displayed at the top of "top" screen). One "gotcha"
on my (Banshee) system is that the video memory can be mapped into your
process space, so my X process looks 48MB larger than it is... sort of.

"df" for mounted disks.

For other info, look in /proc/* (e.g. "cat /proc/pci").




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