Questions tagged [free-command]
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Understanding buffers/cache in linux `free -m`
Just looking for some quick help regarding free -m output on Linux. Here's an example on one of my servers:
$free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 14881 14813 68 0 …
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Bash free command stops working
I am trying to do following:
Get output of free -mo , take the 2nd line and log it to a file every 30 seconds.
When I run
$free -mo -s 30
It runs and displays output every 30 seconds.
But when I run
$ free -mo -s 30 | head -2 | tail -1
It runs…
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Linux free command meaning
I got some researh to do about linux. One of the questions is the folowing:
'Is it possible that on a running system the output of the command free in the free column is the same for the first 2 rows? How can you force this?'
I googeled around, and…
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