Determine how much memory is being used on the system
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Excessive memory use on the system can lead to poor performance due to the system's need to move data between the RAM memory and swap storage, memory must be cleared to make room for new allocations, or there is little space available for caching data from the file system. A quick summary of the memory being used on the system can be obtained with the free command...
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