# A clever way to find the available memory the host currently has free/available?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-clever-way-to-find-the-available-memory-the-host-currently-has-free-available/36611>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** shell, memory, dispatch\
**Created:** [March 27, 2020, 6:42pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-clever-way-to-find-the-available-memory-the-host-currently-has-free-available/36611 "2020-03-27T18:42:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![met-j](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/met-j/32/21919_2.png) [@met-j](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/met-j)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/a-clever-way-to-find-the-available-memory-the-host-currently-has-free-available/36611/4 "2020-03-27T20:55:27Z")

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Thanks. I did not know about it.  
[Here a previous discussion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-check-how-free-ram-is-available/15288/2), [and the docs](https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/base/base/#Base.Sys.free_memory).

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