From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 12:50:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7E116A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:50:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from otech.servercentral.net (office2.ord.scnet.net [64.202.110.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91ABB43D1F for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:50:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@servercentral.net) Received: from servercentral.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i5UCnWrD099426 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:49:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from djh@servercentral.net) Message-ID: <40E2B6DC.5080908@servercentral.net> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:49:32 -0500 From: Danny Howard User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040405) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Pulling measurements of system memory? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:50:49 -0000 What's the easiest command to read to get good information on memory usage? I played with "/sbin/sysctl -n hw.physmem hw.usermem vm.kvm_size vm.kvm_free" yesterday but I have the feeling that these are not the numbers I think they are, because they add up wrong. There's some pretty good stuff at the top of top, but I'd be happier with output in raw numbers of bytes, to feed to my graphing program. This would also save the trouble of reinterpreting M into * 1024^2. Thanks in advance for any tips. Sincerely, -danny -- Danny Howard djh@servercentral.net Technical Support Manager (312)829-1111 x235 Server Central Network http://www.servercentral.net