Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 03 May 2002 03:17:37 +0200
From:      "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" <listsub@rambo.simx.org>
To:        Richard Shea <richardshea@fastmail.fm>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: getting amount of ram with sysctl
Message-ID:  <3CD1E531.8050808@rambo.simx.org>
References:  <20020503002730.02AF56DA03@fastmail.fm>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Richard Shea wrote:

> Hi - Sorry I don't have an answer to your question but I would like to
> do this myself and I don't know how (I don't know how to do it at all,
> forget about accuracy !). 
> 
> I've looked at 'man sysctl' and I can't see the variables you have
> mentioned - the nearest i've got is 'vm.loadavg'.
> 
> Could you post the actual command you're using so that I could try it ?
> 
> Sorry about not answering your question, I'm sure someone will !
> 
> regards
> 
> richard shea.

The commands are just 'sysctl vm.stats.vm.v_page_size' and 
'sysctl vm.stats.vm.v_page_count'.

Someone just told me about 'sysctl hw.physmem' which gives me a 
slightly more accurate value, but Im still missing a few megs.

--
R



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3CD1E531.8050808>