Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:50:23 -0500 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking RAM Message-ID: <199807272148.OAA17372@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:45:50 PDT." <199807271745.KAA25470@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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} >> Could someone tell me how you can check the amount of RAM both available } >> and in use at a given time on FreeBSD 2.2.6 ? } } >Try } } >dmesg | more } } >soon after a reboot. Should tell you how much RAM was found on the way up. } } Well, re-booting a production server that's been up for several months } just to find out how much real memory the kernel saw may not be a viable } option. :-} Granted, someone else suggested "top", which is fine for } this particular resource.... Others have pointed out /var/run/dmesg.boot, which will work for what you're looking for, but I think too many people are overlooking the usefulness of sysctl for getting at information like this: [503] hamilton@woodstock hamilton$ sysctl hw.physmem hw.physmem: 65572864 -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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