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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:55:15 +0100
From:      Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com>
To:        Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?
Message-ID:  <4C6C0263.7010000@ifdnrg.com>
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  On 18/08/2010 16:18, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as
> free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free
> memory and swap.
>
> I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do
> this, I am however looking for something in the base system (if such a
> utility exists).
>
> I also know that top(1) gives this info, and I could certainly use that,
> I just wanted the nearest BSD sibling of free(1).)
>
> Thank you!
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ralf engelschall wrote a nice perl script which does this


http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/dist/

(the free-memory script)

Paul.

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