How can I find out how much memory my Linux is using?

Posted on December 20, 2015December 22, 2018 by Ron Jagannathan

From a command shell, use the “concatenate” command: cat /proc/meminfo for memory usage information. You should see a line starting MemTotal: see below. ie: MemTotal: 15733472 or 15GB, MemFree: and MemAvailable:

This is the total memory Linux thinks it has available to use.

You can also use commands

free - m

vmstat

top

htop

to find current memory usage

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