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> 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.
> <snip>
> You didn't see the ":-)", did you?
Sure did..
>
> Marc
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> University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
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