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<p>Created page with &quot;One of the best ways to monitor the memory on the Linux-based system is to run &#039;cat /proc/meminfo&#039; command. You should sum these counters : &#039;MemFree&#039; + &#039;Buffers&#039; + &#039;Cached&#039; ...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>One of the best ways to monitor the memory on the Linux-based system is to run 'cat /proc/meminfo' command.<br /> <br /> You should sum these counters : 'MemFree' + 'Buffers' + 'Cached' <br /> <br /> <br /> one liner script for real time monitoring (2.6 kernel)<br /> # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo | grep -E &quot;MemFree|Buffers|Cached&quot; | awk '{s+=$2} END {print s}'; sleep 1; done<br /> <br /> <br /> [[category:memory]]</div>

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