Exercise

Enhance your skills and understanding with the help of the questions provided in this exercise!

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In this exercise, we’ll just learn about a few useful tools to examine virtual memory usage on Linux-based systems. This will only be a brief hint at what is possible; you’ll have to dive deeper on your own to truly become an expert (as always!).

#include<stdio.h>
int main() {
    printf("hello, world\n");
    return 0;
}

Questions

  1. The first Linux tool you should check out is the very simple tool free. First, type man free and read its entire manual page; it’s short, don’t worry!

  2. Now, run free, perhaps using some of the arguments that might be useful (e.g., -m, to display memory ...