How do you monitor Memory usage in Linux

Hi,

 How do you monitor memory usage in linux machine, as my current memory probe will raise alarm if there are caches & buffers talking memory.

 But the memory will be freed up in case some app requests the memory so the actual usage is low but the memory checks I have raise alerts even if there is 11 Gb of use by buffers.
sivaatluriAsked:
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madunixCommented:
To monitor in real time, use the following:

1)sar   ( Example  sar -r 2 10)
2)vmstat
3)top  & ntop & atop & htop & ps
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Zephyr ICTCloud ArchitectCommented:
Another one you can use:

watch -n 10 free -h -w -l

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It will refresh every 10 seconds and show you the used and available memory, something like this:
              total        used        free	 shared     buffers	  cache   available
Mem:           3.3G        1.4G        381M        529M         93M        1.4G        1.1G
Low:           3.3G        2.9G        381M
High:            0B          0B          0B
Swap:          3.4G        198M        3.2G

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For detailed descriptions check out the man of free: "man free"
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