You can find out how much memory the kernel is using by taking the total amount of memory in your machine and subtracting from it the amount of:

The correct answer is A. "total mem" in /proc/meminfo. You can find out how much memory the kernel is using by taking the total amount of memory in your machine and subtracting from it the amount of `total mem'' in /proc/meminfo or the output of the command free'. output of the command `free'. See the sample output of /proc/meminfo…

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You can find out how much memory the kernel is using by taking the total amount of memory in your machine and subtracting from it the amount of:

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A"total mem" in /proc/meminfo
B"total mem" in /proc/memused
C"total mem" in /proc/memcurrent
DNone of the choices

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You can find out how much memory the kernel is using by taking the total amount of memory in your machine and subtracting from it the amount of ``total mem'' in /proc/meminfo or the output of the command free'. output of the command free'. See the sample output of /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 118180 kB MemFree: 19108 kB Buffers: 4800 kB Cached: 37860 kB SwapCached: 8 kB Active: 38564 kB Inactive: 24820 kB LowTotal: 118180 kB LowFree: 19108 kB SwapTotal: 522072 kB SwapFree: 522056 kB Mapped: 32936 kB Committed_AS: 64768 kB PageTables: 1036 kB VmallocTotal: 901112 kB VmallocUsed: 3252 kB VmallocChunk: 897140 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB See the sample output of fee -m command total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 115 96 18 0 4 37 -/+ buffers/cache: 55 60

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