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Old 15-03-2007, 06:10 PM
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Is there a command which will display the amount of free memory in a Free BSD system ?, like "free" in linux.


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Type top and see mem field
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Another option is get info from kernel itself
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sysctl -a | grep -i memory
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Chk out script, it displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel

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