From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 13:15:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD8014D98 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA09699; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:41:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:41:02 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Info In-Reply-To: <19991116151439.23224@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > 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. I think somewhere in Sun's literature the saying: "Free memory is wasted memory." Applies to FreeBSD as well. :) -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message