Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:58:43 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: Rowdy <david@fielden.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: showing total/free memory Message-ID: <20040128135843.7d453814.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <401828E8.5090907@fielden.com.au> References: <401823B2.7050400@fielden.com.au> <20040128211153.GA40209@wopr.caltech.edu> <401828E8.5090907@fielden.com.au>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100 Rowdy <david@fielden.com.au> wrote: > Matthew Hunt wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: > > > > > >>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. > > > > > > Try "vmstat" instead. > > > > Thought of that. According to the man page, vmstat shows, for memory: > > avm active virtual pages > fre size of the free list > > Does the size of the free list correspond to actual free memory? I > wasn't sure whether that was the case or not. > > Also, it's a case of parsing the output from top or parsing the output > from vmstat - I had hoped there would be a simple command that would > show memory state :) > > Dave Well, I'm not sure if it works on 5.x, but you could try /usr/ports/sysutils/muse Should be easier to parse than the other options. -Chris
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