free -b alignment issues
Hadrien Lacour
hadrien.lacour at posteo.net
Wed Nov 14 13:44:34 UTC 2018
Hello,
after switching to busybox awk because mawk had a bug, I discovered a bug in
free:
> free -b
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 16812838912 1123995648 13094776832 157700096 2594066432 15411052544
Swap: 0 0 0
> busybox free -b
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 16812838912 372266598413090172928 157700096 2211840 2493845504
-/+ buffers/cache: 122660864015586230272
Swap: 0 0 0
As you can see, the 3rd and 4th fields are merge. It looks like the other free
(from the procps package) uses 12 columns instead of 11.
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