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| -rw-r--r-- | man/free.1 | 5 |
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@@ -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) |