diff --git a/commands/memory-usage.md b/commands/memory-usage.md index b43629237..ce37b7de9 100644 --- a/commands/memory-usage.md +++ b/commands/memory-usage.md @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ administrative overheads that a key and its value require. For nested data types, the optional `SAMPLES` option can be provided, where `count` is the number of sampled nested values. The samples are averaged to estimate the total size. -By default, this option is set to `5`. To sample the all of the nested values, use `SAMPLES 0`. +By default, this option is set to `5`. To retrieve an accurate value of the total allocated memory +instead of an estimate, by summing up all nested values, use `SAMPLES 0`. @examples