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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: free memory
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970810173026.481F-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org> from Paul Dekkers at "Aug 10, 97 05:31:19 pm"
To: psd@worldaccess.nl (Paul Dekkers)
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:57:17 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi
> 
> Which command can I use to see how many free memory I have? (like 'free'
> in linux... :-))
> 
Free memory in FreeBSD is a difficult thing to quantify.  If you do a
vmstat -s, the amount of "free" memory is kind of the size of the
VM cache + size of Free memory.

John