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Taken from Debian with small changes added Authors: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>, Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
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68 lines
1.7 KiB
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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 "5 Oct 2009 " "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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.B free
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.RB [ \-b | \-k | \-m | \-g ]
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.RB [ \-c
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.IR count ]
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.RB [ \-l ]
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.RB [ \-o ]
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.RB [ \-t ]
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.RB [ \-s
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.IR delay ]
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.RB [ \-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The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.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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.TP
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\fB\-b\fR
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Display the amount of memory in bytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-c\fR \fIcount\fR
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Display the result \fIcount\fR times. Requires the \fB\-s\fR option.
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.TP
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\fB\-g\fR
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Display the amount of memory in gigabytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-k\fR
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Display the amount of memory in kilobytes. This is the default.
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.TP
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\fB\-l\fR
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Show detailed low and high memory statistics.
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.TP
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\fB\-m\fR
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Display the amount of memory in megabytes.
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.TP
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\fB\-o\fR
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Display the output in old format, the only difference being this option
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will disable the display of the "buffer adjusted" line.
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.TP
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\fB\-s\fR
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Continuously display the result \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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.TP
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\fB\-t\fR
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Display a line showing the column totals.
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.TP
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\fB\-V\fR
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Display version information.
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.SH FILES
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.nf
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/proc/meminfo memory information
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.fi
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.SH AUTHORS
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Written by Brian Edmonds.
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Send bug reports to <albert@users.sf.net>
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR ps "(1), " slabtop "(1), " top "(1), " vmstat (8).
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.\"{{{}}}
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