Free mem

sammiev · February 18, 2021, 6:34pm

I’m sure that I used that command in the last week, to find a pleasant change today while testing a few things.
Anyone else?

altman · February 18, 2021, 8:38pm

Good reminder I guess.

Edit; Guess that I would put this thread into the Configs section @sammiev

sammiev · February 19, 2021, 1:18pm

I’m only seeing this on a fresh install of Arch. All other Arch base OS ‘free mem’ works as it always did.

However, I do like this a lot.

chroot · February 19, 2021, 1:25pm

Interesting. What version is that?

$free -V

sammiev · February 19, 2021, 1:26pm

free from procps-ng 3.3.17

chroot · February 19, 2021, 1:32pm

Just checked it on my Arch box. It’s the same as yours. Didn’t notice the change before.

This is on my debian box. Looks like changes are made in 3.3.17.

free from procps-ng 3.3.16

sammiev · February 19, 2021, 1:36pm

I like the options, getting use to it already.

chroot · February 19, 2021, 1:42pm

Not many changes though. 37 makes an option mandatory. Old versions take “-k” as default.

sammiev · February 19, 2021, 1:45pm

free or free -k seems to have the same output.