Checking the RAM and swap space available in Linux

byTechdoc •Thursday, June 04, 2015

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connect as root

# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo

MemTotal: 8009228 kB

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# free

total used free shared buffers cached

Mem: 8009228 7795552 213676 0 228088 4766436

-/+ buffers/cache: 2801028 5208200

Swap: 16773112 2340 16770772

grep SwapTotal /proc/meminfo

SwapTotal: 16773112 kB

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