From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 13:03:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D4716A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from fielden.com.au (www.fielden.com.au [203.34.58.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75CFB43D1D for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:03:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@fielden.com.au) Received: (qmail 4367 invoked from network); 28 Jan 2004 21:03:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fielden.com.au) (192.168.1.84) by persephone.fielden.com.au with SMTP; 28 Jan 2004 21:03:47 -0000 Message-ID: <401823B2.7050400@fielden.com.au> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:03:46 +1100 From: Rowdy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: showing total/free memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:03:56 -0000 Greetings, What is the best/easiest way on FreeBSD 5.1 to show the total and free amount of memory (at any given moment in time)? I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory respectively, but I hope there is an easier way. tia Dave