https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/linux-memory-usage/m-p/4206579#M32690 Shalom,<BR /><BR />free <BR /><BR />without the -m provides an answer that does not require a hand calculator.<BR /><BR />SEP Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:19 GMT Steven E. Protter 2008-05-28T17:28:19Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/linux-memory-usage/m-p/4206578#M32689 I would like to figure out EXACTLY how much physical memory is FREE and USED on RedHat RHEL As 4.0 32-Bits Server.<BR /><BR /><BR />[~]$free -m<BR /> total used free shared buffers cached<BR />Mem: 10145 7073 3072 0 146 4941<BR />-/+ buffers/cache: 1985 8160<BR />Swap: 10239 0 10239<BR /><BR />[~]$cat /proc/meminfo<BR />MemTotal: 10389300 kB<BR />MemFree: 3147628 kB<BR />Buffers: 150380 kB<BR />Cached: 5059760 kB<BR />SwapCached: 0 kB<BR />Active: 3600300 kB<BR />Inactive: 3456084 kB<BR />HighTotal: 9568044 kB<BR />HighFree: 2997376 kB<BR />LowTotal: 821256 kB<BR />LowFree: 150252 kB<BR />SwapTotal: 10485752 kB<BR />SwapFree: 10485492 kB<BR />Dirty: 300 kB<BR />Writeback: 0 kB<BR />Mapped: 2897692 kB<BR />Slab: 75628 kB<BR />CommitLimit: 15680400 kB<BR />Committed_AS: 4591552 kB<BR />PageTables: 83708 kB<BR />VmallocTotal: 106488 kB<BR />VmallocUsed: 9820 kB<BR />VmallocChunk: 96276 kB<BR />HugePages_Total: 0<BR />HugePages_Free: 0<BR />Hugepagesize: 2048 kB<BR /><BR />Thanks,<BR /><BR />Gulam. Wed, 28 May 2008 16:07:36 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/linux-memory-usage/m-p/4206578#M32689 Gulam Mohiuddin 2008-05-28T16:07:36Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/linux-memory-usage/m-p/4206579#M32690 Shalom,<BR /><BR />free <BR /><BR />without the -m provides an answer that does not require a hand calculator.<BR /><BR />SEP Wed, 28 May 2008 17:28:19 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-linux/linux-memory-usage/m-p/4206579#M32690 Steven E. Protter 2008-05-28T17:28:19Z