[wallstop]

Edit:

    wallstop@fridge:~$ free -m
                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           15838        9627        3939          26        2637        6210
    Swap:           4095           0        4095


    wallstop@fridge:~$ uptime

    00:43:54 up 37 days, 23:24,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

[bayindirh]

The command you want to use is "free -m".

This is from another system I have close:

                   total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           31881        1423        1042          10       29884       30457
    Swap:            976           2         974

2MB of SWAP used, 1423 MB RAM used, 29GB cache, 1042 MB Free. Total RAM 32 GB.

[eru]

If you are interested in human consumption, there's "free --human" which decided on useful units by itself. The "--human" switch is also available for "du --human" or "df --human" or "ls -l --human". It's often abbreviated as "-h", but not always, since that also often stands for "--help".

[ta1243]

So that 2M of used swap is completely irrelevant. Same on my laptop

               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
    Mem:           31989       11350        4474        2459       16164       19708
    Swap:           6047          20        6027

My syslog server on the other hand (which does a ton of stuff on disk) does use swap

    Mem:            1919         333          75           0        1511        1403
    Swap:           2047         803        1244

With uptime of 235 days.

If I were to increase this to 8G of ram instead of 2G, but for arguments sake had to have no swap as the tradeoff, would that be better or worse. Swap fans say worse.

[wallstop]

Thanks! My other problem was formatting. Just wanted to share that I see 0 swap usage and nowhere near 100% memory usage as a counterpoint.