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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 15:32:22 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        sean-freebsd-hackers@chittenden.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010320153222.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010319183135.B84536@rand.tgd.net>

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On 20-Mar-01 sean-freebsd-hackers@chittenden.org wrote:
>       Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following
>  stats:
>  
>  free physical mem (avail ram)
>  free swap
>  total avail mem
>  
>       any two of the three would be great.  If such a beast doesn't
>  exist, what are the easiest calls to use to get at them so I could
>  write some programs that would output this info.  -sc

I think you can get some of these from sysctl.. Unfortunatly I don't know the MIB's
to use :)

Try browsing sysctl -a

You could also try calling vmstat, and/or iostat.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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