From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 04:14:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE32E106566B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 04:14:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olivares14031@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEE38FC08 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 04:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwa36 with SMTP id 36so3373612wwa.31 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:14:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=dNFPhozw6A7RmNQEXebyi3ljPpZTnTDwv1smKVBDb5E=; b=EXv4hMUbAGpdvVkBXv3HUAh60ztTvE02JEYSST2qx35/PiMyiiE9//WOzLAJ51bW39 JHlIIbtTdroG+ljb+wvYdhIwnCTcDAyCTQglXSQ8QlumpBc+uILAW2VAk2gwxj2NBMtt NHZjFGKhfuuQuPZfSfZa0h6RgpwugjYVZ6H/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=D/nTeqBLBFSSQ0JRbUWO+LGrqTM4IAdJNAJgzad5qLnsAkGwBo+ImYIb277KoGvm3B 5JskgjtT/+i3l8eLSlIO+nXBDLQ3GCGYRYv9kVKI41zmV+y+YKY7T/mSxPfIQnF0FJE+ xsj9V1/M7U79J2qUegnafYAHFzwd5JxrAixCM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.148.19 with SMTP id n19mr5980995wbv.4.1280808863006; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.168.207 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 21:14:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C578EDF.7070606@gmail.com> References: <4C578EDF.7070606@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 04:14:22 +0000 Message-ID: From: Antonio Olivares To: Jason Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: bsd Subject: Re: how to find my memory size? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:14:24 -0000 On 8/3/10, Jason wrote: > hi,all: > > which one is the memory size? This would depend on what you want to find out, the total memory, the amount available to the system and what is allocated for the user? > And what's the meaning of these three variable? > > hw.physmem: 2138476544 The physical memory available to the system after removing sharing like a video card taking up some memory. > hw.usermem: 1886236672 The memory available/allocated for the user(yourself) > hw.realmem: 2147430400 The total amount of memory (not including sharing, like video card) > Hope this helps. Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is the way I interpret the results :) Regards, Antonio