From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 02:23:59 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 1854C16A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 02:23:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (mproxy.gmail.com [216.239.56.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A06243D5F for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 02:23:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from thakur.d@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id w29so2616496cwb for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.11.118.68 with SMTP id q68mr22772cwc; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <934564a204063012212ff5b63a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:21:51 -0700 From: David Thakur To: Danny Howard In-Reply-To: <40E2B6DC.5080908@servercentral.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <40E2B6DC.5080908@servercentral.net> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:23:59 -0000 Take a look at rrdtool: http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ It does graphs of system statistics. If you need to get just the variables, check the shell scripts from this package http://www.ag0ny.com/graphs/ I use this on FreeBSD to generate graphs for my server. Regards, David On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 07:49:32 -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >