From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 5:58:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europe.std.com (europe.std.com [199.172.62.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E0D11515C for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) Received: from world.std.com (lowell@world-f.std.com [199.172.62.5]) by europe.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA27759; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:57:24 -0500 (EST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by world.std.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA17503; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 08:57:20 -0500 (EST) To: mojahed@citechco.net (Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory Info References: <19991117005502.61785@cosmos.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 18 Nov 1999 08:57:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: mojahed@citechco.net's message of 16 Nov 1999 20:06:57 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mojahed@citechco.net (Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat) writes: > 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. This has been asked several times in the last week or so; I have no idea why this is popping up all of a sudden. The answer is no, it's not possible. FreeBSD's virtual memory system tries to keep nearly all of the memory in use, all of the time. Try the memory-use fields of top(1); that's the closest thing to what you want. [If former Linux users really want this so badly, maybe we should link FreeBSD's "free" to "top" or something like that. The part that annoys me is that while "free" memory -- in the Linux command's sense -- is an ambiguous concept on FreeBSD, it isn't *really* that clear on Linux either.] Be well. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message