Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 16:21:58 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Amount of free memory available in system? Message-ID: <15424.50454.973048.932329@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <20020112142534.D40866@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <15424.32963.768829.892783@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020112142534.D40866@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> > Is there a simple sysctl or a command line utility I can use to > > determine how much free memory is available in a system? > > > > I've got an embedded application that has *very* limited memory, and I > > was trying to figure out how much memory was available for the userland > > applications. > > > > 'top' has something, as well as 'vmstat'. Unfortunately, because of the > > limited amount of disk space available on this box, I don't have access > > to either one of those. > > > > Is there a sysctl I can use to determine how much free memory is > > available on the box? > > Why not look how top and vmstat calculate it and do that in your code. I was hoping to get do 'sysctl foo.bar.bletch' to tell me information. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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