Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:41:02 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat <mojahed@citechco.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Info Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9911161339510.12797-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <19991116151439.23224@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 17 November 1999 at 0:55:02 +0600, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote: > > Dear BSDers, > > > > I am a new convert to FreeBSD, so I apologize for this question. > > > > 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. > > I don't know Linux's free, but I suspect you're looking for a quantity > that doesn't exist. FreeBSD's memory management is very complex, and > you can't describe things with just a single parameter. Having said > that, the suggestion of using top is probably a good one. I think somewhere in Sun's literature the saying: "Free memory is wasted memory." Applies to FreeBSD as well. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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