From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 4 18:57:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89D7214D9B for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 18:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marko@uk.radan.com) Received: from [158.152.75.22] (helo=uk.radan.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10Tyc3-0005Yx-0B; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 01:55:44 +0000 Organisation: Radan Computational Ltd., Bath, UK. Phone: +44-1225-320320 Fax: +44-1225-320311 Received: from marder-1. (rasnt-1 [193.114.228.211]) by uk.radan.com (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id CAA00734; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:55:11 +0100 Received: (from marko@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.2/8.8.8) id CAA00669; Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:52:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from marko) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 02:52:06 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "Opec Kemp (WTFRC account)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Memory Message-ID: <19990405025206.F257@marder-1.localhost> References: <03d301be7f03$a7cad570$0201a8c0@home.opec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <03d301be7f03$a7cad570$0201a8c0@home.opec.com.au>; from Opec Kemp (WTFRC account) on Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:28:47AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:28:47AM +1000, Opec Kemp (WTFRC account) wrote: > Hi I'm new to FreeBSD so if this is a silly question please forgive me. > I need to find out how much physical memory I have on my machine. I know > that you can > run "dmesg" to find out, however, my dmesg is full of stuff like this: > swap space > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager: out of swap space > > Now, I know these errors are bad that is why I need to find out how much > physical memory is on the box so I can pgrade. I'm a linux user as well and > under Linux to find out the physical memory you just do "cat /proc/meminfo" > or > "meminfo " (for X version). Not sure that if I reboot the box will clear out > the old dmesg, however, I do not want to > do this if I relly don't have to. > It should be at the top of the dmesg output (pipe it to more(1)), here's mine: % dmesg|more Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #3: Sat Mar 20 14:47:38 GMT 1999 root@marder-1:/usr/src/sys/compile/MARDER-1 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "TSC" frequency 233864804 Hz CPU: AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions (233.86-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x562 Stepping=2 Features=0x8001bf real memory = 67108864 (65536K bytes) ....... > Thank you for your help > > > > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | O P E C | http://www.ozemail.com.au/~okemp | > | +--------------------------------------------------+ > | K E M P | okemp@ozemail.com.au | okemp@hotmail.com | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | "Unix is user friendly, it just a little | > | picky about who it is friendly to" | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~markov _______________________________________________________________ Mark Ovens, CNC Apps Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. Bath UK CAD/CAM solutions for Sheetmetal Working Industry mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message