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Subject: Re: How to see the Ram memory in freebsd 6.2
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Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:04:53PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>   
>> Prakash Poudyal wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello All,
>>>
>>> Can any body tell me how to see the RAM memory in freebsd.
>>>
>>> for your reference I had already used dmesg and top command and now I 
>>> want
>>> to know specifec command to see the Ram memory only.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>>       
>> You are looking for the equivalent of the Linux free command. This does 
>> not exits in FreeBSD per se, you can however install the freecolor 
>> program from the ports.
>> Just cd /usr/ports/sysutils/freecolor
>>     
>
> What if you just want to see how much is installed, what speed it is, et
> cetera?  It isn't clear to me that Prakash was necessarily looking for
> RAM usage.
>
>   
True, I made a few assumptions here, based on what I thought he meant.
For the type of questions you are asking I usually look at the bios or
attack the machine with a screwdriver :)