Richard Adams wrote:
>
> >
> > Ignore those people posting such suggestions as 'top', 'free', etc.
> > REAL Linuxers do it the 'proc' way:
> > cat /proc/meminfo
> > :-)
>
> Huum, well where do you think "free" gets its information from then..
> /proc/meminfo is just a file which "free" looks into, with the flags of free
> you can determine in which format you want to see the output, by doing /cat
> proc/meminfo you get the same information but only in one format.
>
> All the programs you mention get there information from the proc filesystem.
>
> Its more a question of how you wanna see the info, not considering yourself
> to be a REAL linux user.
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You didn't see the ":-)", did you?
Marc
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