No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, ...

Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

There are several commands for checking up on memory usage in a Linux system. Focusing on which processes and users are consuming the most memory can benefit from a few carefully crafted tools and ...

I have 256M of ram installed on each of my LM8 boxen. Looking at Control Center right now and it shows:<BR>Total: 255MB<BR>Used: 193MB<BR>Free: 3MB<BR>Cache: 37MB<P>Whats up with that?? I have ...

I have linux (Slackware 8.0 to be specific) installed on my computer with 384MB ram and a 768MB swap (actually slightly more but I told fdisk 768 when I created the partition). I ran 'free' in the ...