Get To Know Linux: See Your Systems’ Memory Usage

Get To Know Linux: See Your Systems’ Memory Usage: "If you are new to Linux you might be wondering how you can find out how much free memory your system has or how your memory is being used. For this there are two simple to use applications: top and free. The top application informs you what tasks are running and how much memory and? CPU? is being used by each. The free application tells you how much total RAM is being consumed by your system. Both are command line applications and both do an outstanding job of reporting information."