Since almost every basic command nowadays has a fancy Rust or Go rewrite, free
should not be an exception.
In case you didn't know, free shows your memory usage on Unix-based systems.
frei obtains memory data from /proc/meminfo and represents it in a colored
bar chart using the same color-coding for as htop.
frei is available on the AUR.
Binaries for i386, amd64 and arm are available on the releases
page.
Make sure you have Go installed.
git clone https://github.com/alexcoder04/frei.git
cd frei
go build . # builds a binary
go install . # builds and install a binary to your $GOPATH| option | description |
|---|---|
-help |
show list of options |
-h |
human-readable numbers (implies -numbers) |
-key |
display color key |
-numbers |
print numbers in addition to the chart |
-version |
display version and exit |
I appreciate any kind of improvement/feature ideas or bug reports. Don't hesitate to open an issue.
For more detailed information, see free(1).
"Free" (MemFree in /proc/meminfo) reports just the amount of memory that is
currently not in use. "Available" (MemAvailable in /proc/meminfo), on the
other side, is a more sophisticated estimation of how much memory is available
for starting new applications, without swapping. It takes into account the page
size and how much of reclaimable memory can actually be reclaimed.