Comments on: Display available memory on Linux / Ubuntu

By: Shane

Shane — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:10:10 +0000

I know this was a while ago, but in case somebody else uses this page for reference.

The command ‘free -m’ will display the memory in MB’s where the ‘free’ alone is in kb’s

dude — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:48:28 +0000

hmmm… when i’m trying the command : free -m
the result is different.

cat /proc/meminfo :
MemTotal: 4054364 kB
MemFree: 338924 kB

free -m :
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3959 3491 468 0 8 787

can U explain about this?

nomad — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 12:40:40 +0000

or use command free

asnd16 — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:34:43 +0000

thanks