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Output format changed for the `free` command.
Two different machines. The first has 8GiB RAM and is running Ubuntu 14.04, the 2nd has
16GiB RAM and is running Ubuntu 16.04. Looks like they changed the output format for `free`.
ubuntu 14.04 $ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 7867 1077 6790 1 227 470
-/+ buffers/cache: 380 7487
Swap: 8073 0 8073
ubuntu 16.04 $ free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15953 7933 1377 558 6642 6560
Swap: 3814 3738 76
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