From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 11 14:49:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C33437B401 for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 14:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-458.hutchtel.net [209.105.45.186]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id QAA25276; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:49:09 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Lowell Gilbert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to know the amount of total memory on the system (like free command on linux) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:47:26 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="" References: <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx> <01021019192100.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net> <44vgqgj3as.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> In-Reply-To: <44vgqgj3as.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021116482601.00253@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > jpaetzel@hutchtel.net (Josh Paetzel) writes: > > > 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. > > I *think* that Free + Inactive would be closer to Linux definition of > "free memory", although the wired pages might count too... > Yes. You are absolutely right. I didn't read the original post closely enough. > > Did you read the man page for top? It has a nice little description > > of those values at the end. > > With luck, it might even be enough to explain why "free memory" isn't > a useful concept. > I don't think they go THAT far. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message