How to check memory usage

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I’m not a Vera expert and have run into problems with one of my Veralites. Having read a lot of posts I am now very suspicious it is a memory utilisation issue. I would like to check memory utilisation and I read this in an old thread …

"Going in via SSH and running the free mem command will give you an idea of what you’ve got free. "

but I have no idea how to do this. Can somebody explain the process in more detail or point me in the right direction please.

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If you run the AltUI plugin, then a simple one-liner in Lua Test will print you lots of info…

for line in io.lines "/proc/meminfo" do print(line) end

gives (on my Vera Edge)…

MemTotal:         509016 kB
MemFree:          166360 kB
Buffers:           86788 kB
Cached:           142584 kB
SwapCached:            0 kB
Active:           228272 kB
Inactive:          78792 kB
Active(anon):      82336 kB
Inactive(anon):     1920 kB
Active(file):     145936 kB
Inactive(file):    76872 kB
Unevictable:           0 kB
Mlocked:               0 kB
HighTotal:             0 kB
HighFree:              0 kB
LowTotal:         509016 kB
LowFree:          166360 kB
SwapTotal:             0 kB
SwapFree:              0 kB
Dirty:               164 kB
Writeback:             0 kB
AnonPages:         77688 kB
Mapped:            30568 kB
Shmem:              6568 kB
Slab:              26108 kB
SReclaimable:      19688 kB
SUnreclaim:         6420 kB
KernelStack:        1928 kB
PageTables:         1692 kB
NFS_Unstable:          0 kB
Bounce:                0 kB
WritebackTmp:          0 kB
CommitLimit:      254508 kB
Committed_AS:     862764 kB
VmallocTotal:     499712 kB
VmallocUsed:       29576 kB
VmallocChunk:     389116 kB
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Or can install the system monitor plugin…

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Here is a sample of the output of System Monitor:

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Thank you everyone. I finally retrieved the data through installing system monitor. I figure from that if the veralite has 64 MB of RAM then memory capacity is not an issue as it shows 28310 Kb free memory. Back to waiting for a response from support :frowning: