It’s a small cli utility for getting memory stats. ‘free’ is a tool that Linux users would be familiar with.
Apple has a more traditional Unix ‘vm_stat’ command but it returns information in pages which isn’t really human readable.
As a Linux guy for many years (and a professional Unix/Linux administrator for many years) I miss being able to get memory stats by executing ‘free’ so I wrote this utility.
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For the uneducated like me, what exactly does this do? The Readme.md doesn’t really explain much
It’s a small cli utility for getting memory stats. ‘free’ is a tool that Linux users would be familiar with.
Apple has a more traditional Unix ‘vm_stat’ command but it returns information in pages which isn’t really human readable.
As a Linux guy for many years (and a professional Unix/Linux administrator for many years) I miss being able to get memory stats by executing ‘free’ so I wrote this utility.
Oh awesome, thanks for the explanation!