Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:57:59 -0600 From: "DaleCo Help Desk" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: "John Mills" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu> Cc: "FreeBSD-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use Message-ID: <016901c27f53$323e1de0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0210290844300.2218-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
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From: "John Mills" <jmmills@telocity.com>
To: "Julien Bournelle" <Julien.Bournelle@int-evry.fr>
Cc: "John Mills" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>; "FreeBSD-questions"
<freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use
> Julien -
>
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Julien Bournelle wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Mills wrote:
>
> > > How can I check the amount of RAM and swap memory in use (like
the Linux
> > > console command: 'free')?
>
> > top ?
>
> <blush>
> Thanks - I had been ignoring that part of the screen when I ran
'top'.
> </blush>
>
> Now - I see I need to increase my swap partition. Do I have to wipe
my
> installation and start again?
#man swapon
SWAPON(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
SWAPON(8)
NAME
swapon - specify additional device for paging and swapping
SYNOPSIS
swapon -a
swapon special_file ...
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Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.
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