From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 17:36: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E363D37B583 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA13572; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:29:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006160029.UAA13572@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Dan Larsson" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:13:17 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Best tool for displaying used/free memory Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:43:48 +0200, Dan Larsson wrote: >What tool should I use to best get the >totals of used and free memory in an non >interactive way (that is not use 'top' or >equiv) Did you check vmstat? I wouldn't call it the "best" tool to check for memory, but that and "swapinfo" can give you a decent idea of memory utilization. If swapinfo shows low swap utilization then you are working mostly on RAM (good). If you see high utilization then you are working mostly of swap(slower). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message