From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 12:15:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F95715290 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA22719; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 06:45:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991116151439.23224@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:14:39 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Info Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: <19991117005502.61785@cosmos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <19991117005502.61785@cosmos.net>; from Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat on Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 12:55:02AM +0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 17 November 1999 at 0:55:02 +0600, Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat wrote: > Dear BSDers, > > I am a new convert to FreeBSD, so I apologize for this question. > > What is the command to show physical memory usage? I used > vmstat, but its avm and fre fields are not what I want. I want > an equivalent to Linux's "free" -- if possible. I don't know Linux's free, but I suspect you're looking for a quantity that doesn't exist. FreeBSD's memory management is very complex, and you can't describe things with just a single parameter. Having said that, the suggestion of using top is probably a good one. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message