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debug.free

Debug Core4 Lua Commands

SYNOPSIS

str = debug.free([mode])

DESCRIPTION

Provides information about used memory resources. The optional mode argument specifies:

0 General memory usage
1 Zone allocator statistics
2 Slab allocator statistics
3 Kernel malloc pool statistics
4 Buffer cache statistics
5 Virtual memory mapping of current process

NOTES

The output is meant for printing on a terminal and contains VT100-like escape codes for formatting.
Never parse the output of this function programmatically. It is only meant for human consumption.

EXAMPLE

print(debug.free())
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 128MB 4.87MB 123.12MB 0B 64kB 122.75kB Adjusted: 4.69MB 123.3MB

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