"free" command output is changed in RHEL 7.1

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • free command output is changed during upgrade from RHEL 7.0 to RHEL 7.1.
  • In RHEL 7
                    total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3688       3548        139        182          0       3040
-/+ buffers/cache:        508       3179
Swap:         3983          6       3977
  • In RHEL 7.1 the output is below
                       total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         257751        1842      254508         105        1400      255327
Swap:          4095           0        4095

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • procps-ng-3.10

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