From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 21:35:01 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 6D30210656A4 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EA6058FC08 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 10902 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2010 21:08:20 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=DKIM-Signature:Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=hXDThkoh/1pMnEFEufAi6gyid5WDn3wZ1eDBur3ZrTR3SAgd86KvMfz7d01GpB8N/f/OGvWOpZ0hrvJAP94yUg2co2mhZpG8pVLUJ3+duWutAgvVzBcHWrrZbfzP7s0/NaCeqANOXg/2trWIfQ4/MxixIo1C3IkzH1NFQ1lXQyY= ; DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rogers.com; s=s1024; t=1282165700; bh=jlU/iFQa3BM1IIwYtztwGCWt4ZAqEKCLKDUS4UEV4cs=; h=Received:X-Yahoo-SMTP:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:References:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=QXNqqqHhkw6F0ukPKUTcwMK3c981XnEShTNA9pkL/oC//rHtZCd0iIyfb+mPhWW9Izg1HAjv1fhTDnfkJDMWcX844Q8GqkciFMNYujWfIoNu5P9z2xHHIoBFce/+eBRDDvZRlWfR8Z6DRTJWp26Z9Wm/dJP23lvOS5UvLk8X37I= Received: from napoleon.localnet (mike.jeays@99.224.61.141 with plain) by smtp108.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Aug 2010 14:08:20 -0700 PDT X-Yahoo-SMTP: N82WFx6swBBjwcHWPFR2CGt6udzA8RPrA.xm0enFFXaK2g-- X-YMail-OSG: CdwzaDkVM1lGw73D6_3PxcUr0ZjBnz1VSU5diGvG_oHGz.Z uZ6tczr0RR.TN5wMsnLjjUr9Ro8NNQVUXb__AhxBk0ZWIQA1HkCrO3_HbagR wregOzpxy2gqywar4p8U9PSFGOUCIi_2QFpp0o.662fvMxOWke_DH5d7NiIm yahewW0TlQTp3CGoC_7f8G9lKwAoowCVablhCOIMgzNLO86a_8E1cU_JSZsV nv_YsGn.6ztagpMDi9PpS5qVf8sFziSgd8se1Q_eo7INBnEUjj9xWg7MmUDx TRLlDOYZ6MYTUy5zAanUO_wTD8pxjwdJBZvs7kW_sSkF47WJbc4j_GCVESYK MwiaovDfyKDR842pXtQQWhmmjV6HDwm4hvBiG8TN1hu5S48Nbae_E5gc0eN7 4c4BQ2Mg4yqdf0qlUX3pT X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:08:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-24-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008181708.35551.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Subject: Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)? 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: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:35:01 -0000 On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness wrote: > > Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice? > > Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need. > > The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, the memory > portion is more cryptic, I guess due to differences in how FreeBSD > allocates memory. > > Although a BSD free would probably be easier to remember, top -n 1 does the > job. _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" alias free='top -n 1 ' ?! -- http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca