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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:18:21 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        Mario Medina Nussbaum <medisoft@alohabbs.org.mx>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to know the amount of total memory on the system (like free command on linux)
Message-ID:  <01021019192100.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx>
References:  <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx>

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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. 
Did you read the man page for top?  It has a nice little description
of those values at the end.

Josh




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