HOWTO: Check My System RAM With “Free”.
Free is a command line application which can give you a quick and dirty look at how your memory is faring during operation.
As you’ve likely figured out by now, to run free open up a console and type free.
This image is of my laptop’s memory usage during operation. I have 512MB of RAM, but 64MB of it is shared for video.
Free will also give you a quick look at how much of your swap partition you’re using. Ironically, using free (or perhaps one of the other memory tools) is how I discovered once that I didn’t actually have a swap partition.
You don’t even have to be root!
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