Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:15:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: "Opec Kemp (WTFRC account)" <opec@wtfrc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990405090917.21948B-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <03d301be7f03$a7cad570$0201a8c0@home.opec.com.au>
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, 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. Depending on how long you've been generating those swap messages you can vi /var/log/messages If the log has been rolled over you may need to gunzip messages.[0-9] and vi one of the older ones. You can search for FreeBSD to locate the beginning of the boot messages. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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