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Subject: Re: I need one command
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Carstea Catalin <carstea.catalin@gmail.com> writes:

> I run squid on my freebsd box and i need to know the free memory.
> In redhat exist a nice command #free to show the free memory. In

$  top | grep Mem:
Mem: 91M Active, 271M Inact, 91M Wired, 232K Cache, 60M Buf, 45M Free

$ top | awk '/Mem:/ { print $12 }'
45M

$ vmstat
 procs      memory      page                    disks     faults      cpu
 r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ad0 ad2   in   sy  cs us sy id
 2 2 0  207316  46040   47   0   0   0  37   0   0   0  341  485 363  0  0 99

$ vmstat | tail -1 | awk '{ print $5 }'
46040