Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 00:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Basket Case <jon@technix.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: free & gpm -- has anyone ported them to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960109001858.241B-100000@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov> In-Reply-To: <199601090149.MAA03979@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, Michael Smith wrote:
> Basket Case stands accused of saying:
> >
> > I'm wondering if anyone has ported Free & GPM to FreeBSD -- I miss free
> > especially and some of my friends like gpm (from linux) and was wondering
> > if anyone has ported them over to fbsd yet. If not, then will a gpm
> > executible work fine in the linux compat mode w/ fbsd?
>
> Hmm, I know gpm (Soren is working on support for something similar for
> FreeBSD, I don't know where he's up to yet), but "Free" is unknown to me.
>
> What is it?
It's a memory status thing, it displays stuff similar to:
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 30984 29160 1824 10504 15060
+/- buffers: 14100 16884
Swap: 102812 668 102144
FreeBSD has a simialr display in the "systat" command, using the :vmstat
command. Also check out "swapinfo"
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