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Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:42:09 +0300 (EEST)
From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua>
To: robert at castley dot com <robert@castley.com>
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Subject: Re: How to check available memory/RAM
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Greetings!

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, robert at castley dot com wrote:

> Just converting over from Linux to FreeBSD and I was wondering how can I
> tell how much RAM I have available/free.
>
> Under Linux there is a command called 'free' which displays something like :
>
>                     total       used       free     shared    buffers
> cached
> Mem:           249        244          4          0          6        165
> -/+ buffers/cache:         72        176
> Swap:          258          1        257
>
> This tells me I have 249Mb of RAM total and using 244Mb of it !!!
>
> However I cannot find under FreeBSD an equivalent command.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Robert
>
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I can recommend you to use top, 'cos it's output is self-explainable. Exit
with 'q'. You may find interesting to check manpage before (top(1)).

Regards, Alexander.


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