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.\" -*-Nroff-*-
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.\" This page Copyright (C) 1993 Matt Welsh, mdw@sunsite.unc.edu.
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.\" Freely distributable under the terms of the GPL
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.TH FREE 1 "20 Mar 1993 " "Cohesive Systems" "Linux User's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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free \- Display amount of free and used memory in the system
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BR "free " [ "\-b" " | " "\-k" " | " "\-m" "] [" "\-o" "] [" "\-s"
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.I delay
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.RB "] [" "\-t" "] [" "\-V" ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fBfree\fP displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap
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memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel.
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The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.
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.SS Options
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The \fB-b\fP switch displays the amount of memory in bytes; the
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\fB-k\fP switch (set by default) displays it in kilobytes; the \fB-m\fP
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switch displays it in megabytes.
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.PP
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The \fB-t\fP switch displays a line containing the totals.
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.PP
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The \fB-o\fP switch disables the display of a "buffer adjusted" line. Unless
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specified \fBfree\fP subtracts/adds buffer memory from/to the used/free memory
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reports (respectively!).
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.PP
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The \fB-s\fP switch activates continuous polling \fIdelay\fP seconds apart. You
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may actually specify any floating point number for \fIdelay\fP,
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.BR usleep (3)
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is used for microsecond resolution delay times.
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.PP
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The \fB\-V\fP displays version information.
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.SH FILES
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.ta
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.IR /proc/meminfo "\-\- memory information"
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.fi
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR ps (1),
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.BR top(1)
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.SH AUTHORS
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Written by Brian Edmonds.
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Send bug reports to <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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