Date: 18 Nov 1999 08:57:19 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com> To: mojahed@citechco.net (Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory Info Message-ID: <rd6emdn3nsw.fsf@world.std.com> In-Reply-To: mojahed@citechco.net's message of 16 Nov 1999 20:06:57 %2B0100 References: <19991117005502.61785@cosmos.net>
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mojahed@citechco.net (Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat) writes: > What is the command to show physical memory usage? I used > vmstat, but its avm and fre fields are not what I want. I want > an equivalent to Linux's "free" -- if possible. This has been asked several times in the last week or so; I have no idea why this is popping up all of a sudden. The answer is no, it's not possible. FreeBSD's virtual memory system tries to keep nearly all of the memory in use, all of the time. Try the memory-use fields of top(1); that's the closest thing to what you want. [If former Linux users really want this so badly, maybe we should link FreeBSD's "free" to "top" or something like that. The part that annoys me is that while "free" memory -- in the Linux command's sense -- is an ambiguous concept on FreeBSD, it isn't *really* that clear on Linux either.] Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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