Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:10:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto calculate free memory from top Message-ID: <20030909221009.GX48339@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <bjle8l$6io$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <bjkheq$cg8$1@sea.gmane.org> <33CC6198-E2E7-11D7-A4CA-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <bjl1b1$4qu$1@sea.gmane.org> <20030909173825.GT48339@dan.emsphone.com> <bjle8l$6io$1@sea.gmane.org>
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In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said: > >> So they _are_ available for use then? And thus are relatively free, > >> correct? > > > > All memory except for Wired is "free", to varying degrees. > > OK. Just out of curiosity, what would you say about my example then: > > ------ > Mem: 72M Active, 668M Inact, 165M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 70M Free > Swap: 2048M Total, 5448K Used, 2043M Free > ------ > > Based on that FAQ, I would say that I've got about 80M of immediately > available memory, and if the system gets pushed really hard, I can > probably spare another 600M or so with relatively minimal swap usage. > > Is that accurate? Sounds about right. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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