Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:47:26 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to know the amount of total memory on the system (like free command on linux) Message-ID: <01021116482601.00253@mark9.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <44vgqgj3as.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> References: <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx> <01021019192100.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net> <44vgqgj3as.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > jpaetzel@hutchtel.net (Josh Paetzel) writes: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mario Medina Nussbaum wrote: > > > Hi! i'm new to freebsd, and i have a lot of questions, one of they is > > > how to know the amount of total memory on the system, like on linux with > > > the command "free". > > > > > > i ran the command "top" and i don't know what of the values is the one i > > > need: > > > > > > Mem: 10M Active, 8464K Inact, 9656K Wired, 1356K Cache, 4798K Buf, 15M Free > > > Swap: 101M Total, 8708K Used, 93M Free, 8% Inuse > > > > > > > > > > > > > I think that the 15M Free would be the one you are interested in. > > I *think* that Free + Inactive would be closer to Linux definition of > "free memory", although the wired pages might count too... > Yes. You are absolutely right. I didn't read the original post closely enough. > > Did you read the man page for top? It has a nice little description > > of those values at the end. > > With luck, it might even be enough to explain why "free memory" isn't > a useful concept. > I don't think they go THAT far. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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