

At least they would be fighting if the kernel wasn’t refereeing. This is the precious resource that all of the running processes are fighting over. It’s how much RAM you have installed on your motherboard.

Let’s see what the figures in the columns represent. Instead of a Buff/cache column, we get a Buffers column and a Cache column. Here are the figures in a table: total used free shared buffers cache available To separate the Buff/cache figures into their own columns, use the -w (wide) option: free -w Free: The remaining (unused) swap space.Total: The size of the swap partition or swap file.
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The top line reports on system memory, the bottom line reports on swap space. On other distributions, the default is kibibytes. This forces free to use mebibytes, which are 1,048,576 bytes. The figures are given in kibibytes, which are 1024 bytes. On Manjaro, the free command is aliased as free -m. Here’s the output in a neater table: total used free shared buff/cache available On your computer, you’ll be able to stretch the terminal window.
