Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:38:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto calculate free memory from top Message-ID: <20030909173825.GT48339@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <bjl1b1$4qu$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <bjkheq$cg8$1@sea.gmane.org> <33CC6198-E2E7-11D7-A4CA-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <bjl1b1$4qu$1@sea.gmane.org>
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In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said: > Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any > >> given point in time? > > > > What do you mean by "free memory"? > > Memory that can be used by other programs before the vm starts using > swap. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#TOP-MEMORY-STATES does a pretty good job of explaining the states. > So they _are_ available for use then? And thus are relatively free, > correct? All memory except for Wired is "free", to varying degrees. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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