Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 14:25:35 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Amount of free memory available in system? Message-ID: <20020112142534.D40866@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <15424.32963.768829.892783@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:30:27AM -0700 References: <15424.32963.768829.892783@caddis.yogotech.com>
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--HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:30:27AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Is there a simple sysctl or a command line utility I can use to > determine how much free memory is available in a system? >=20 > I've got an embedded application that has *very* limited memory, and I > was trying to figure out how much memory was available for the userland > applications. >=20 > 'top' has something, as well as 'vmstat'. Unfortunately, because of the > limited amount of disk space available on this box, I don't have access > to either one of those. >=20 > Is there a sysctl I can use to determine how much free memory is > available on the box? Why not look how top and vmstat calculate it and do that in your code. Kris --HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8QLfeWry0BWjoQKURAmMAAJsEJ29Pcsm1DRtK2nY2mJYG4k0xzgCfcjF0 wemE/ltrP5eEmK2YJ76ITbE= =57s0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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