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Subject: Re: Checking RAM and swap use
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 07:57:59 -0600
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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"
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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 ...

......................................

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.


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