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"Jonathan Reeder" <jreeder@minutemenu.com> writes:

> What is the closest utility FreeBSD has to Linux's "free" to check memory
> usage?

top(1)

See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#TOP-FREEMEM