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

> Thanks a bunch for the reply.  The one thing that I wish top had is a total
> memory listing, and unless I'm just missing it, I don't think it has one.  I
> know I can always check dmesg for the total amount of ram in a machine, but
> I was hoping for a quicker way to see the total memory in a box.

In my own opinion, that doesn't belong on top's output screen, because
it doesn't change while the program is running.

Try:
 sysctl hw.physmem