From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 10 17:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33C0A37B67D for ; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:21:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-288.hutchtel.net [206.10.67.216]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id TAA12683; Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:20:05 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: Mario Medina Nussbaum , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to know the amount of total memory on the system (like free command on linux) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 19:18:21 +0000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-2022-JP" References: <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx> In-Reply-To: <3A85DAF1.5030807@alohabbs.org.mx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01021019192100.00458@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Mario Medina Nussbaum wrote: > Hi! i'm new to freebsd, and i have a lot of questions, one of they is > how to know the amount of total memory on the system, like on linux with > the command "free". > > i ran the command "top" and i don't know what of the values is the one i > need: > > Mem: 10M Active, 8464K Inact, 9656K Wired, 1356K Cache, 4798K Buf, 15M Free > Swap: 101M Total, 8708K Used, 93M Free, 8% Inuse > > > I think that the 15M Free would be the one you are interested in. Did you read the man page for top? It has a nice little description of those values at the end. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message