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FYI Nice site: www.LinuxAteMyRam.com

Posted: September 9th, 2012, 9:04 am
by sander
FYI Interesting site: http://www.LinuxAteMyRam.com explaining why/how Linux uses all your RAM (for disk caching), and how to see how much RAM is actually free: the last number in the line "buffers/cache:" from "free -m". So:

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free -m | grep cache: | awk '{ print $NF }'
HTH