From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 13:23: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.wam.umd.edu (po4.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C8414D01 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:22:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by po4.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA29359; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:21:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA09179; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:21:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA09175; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:21:42 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 16:21:42 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Greg Lehey , Mojahedul Hoque Abul Hasanat , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Memory Info In-Reply-To: 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 I use top to show my memory statistics, sometimes I also use systat -vm 1 to show memory usage a little more detailed. But it is true that FreeBSD's memory management is a lot more complicated than Linux, but also works better under a load, which is the point for the complication as I understand it. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message