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From: Steve Mazerski <smazerski@yahoo.co.jp>
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Subject: Re: "free" command
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 02:42:04 +0200
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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 02:33, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jul 16), Steve Mazerski said:
> > Is there an equivalent to Linux's "free" command in FreeBSD?
> > Something that does this:
> >
> > user@localhost $ free
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     ca=
ched
> > Mem:        261672     178912      82760          0       9616     10=
2020
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      67276     194396
> > Swap:       530136          0     530136
>
> Lines 4 & 5 of the output from 'top', pretty much.

Aha, thanks. There isn't a command which dumps the
info to standard output by any chance? I'm considering
setting up a webserver with a memory-heavy application
and I intend writing a script to monitor memory usage.

S.Mazerski


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