Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100 From: Rowdy <david@fielden.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: showing total/free memory Message-ID: <401828E8.5090907@fielden.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040128211153.GA40209@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <401823B2.7050400@fielden.com.au> <20040128211153.GA40209@wopr.caltech.edu>
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Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote: > > >>I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot >>and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory >>respectively, but I hope there is an easier way. > > > Try "vmstat" instead. > Thought of that. According to the man page, vmstat shows, for memory: avm active virtual pages fre size of the free list Does the size of the free list correspond to actual free memory? I wasn't sure whether that was the case or not. Also, it's a case of parsing the output from top or parsing the output from vmstat - I had hoped there would be a simple command that would show memory state :) Dave
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