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| author | Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | 2023-01-16 17:29:36 +1100 |
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| committer | Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | 2023-01-16 17:29:36 +1100 |
| commit | dbde44b528ed7646249e066001a600dbe1d6a196 (patch) | |
| tree | 75b8f5a67a7791af8a00eaba7ab9d50bd5e40fd0 | |
| parent | 647a2aa9e1cbc7a3cc6a4fca7acab958bd65d4b9 (diff) | |
| download | procps-ng-dbde44b528ed7646249e066001a600dbe1d6a196.tar.gz | |
doc: free.1 total memory doesn't include reserved memory
Updated the definition of total, because its not *all* of
the installed memory but close to it.
References:
procps-ng/procps#247
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/free.1 | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ .\" This page Copyright (C) 1993 Matt Welsh, mdw@sunsite.unc.edu. .\" Long options where added at April 15th, 2011. .\" Freely distributable under the terms of the GPL -.TH FREE 1 "2022-06-25" "procps-ng" "User Commands" +.TH FREE 1 "2023-01-16" "procps-ng" "User Commands" .SH NAME free \- Display amount of free and used memory in the system .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo. The displayed columns are: .TP \fBtotal\fR -Total installed memory (MemTotal and SwapTotal in /proc/meminfo) +Total usable memory (MemTotal and SwapTotal in /proc/meminfo). This includes +the physical and swap memory minus a few reserved bits and kernel binary code. .TP \fBused\fR Used or unavailable memory (calculated as \fBtotal\fR - \fBavailable\fR) |