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From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Differences between Net/Free BSD?
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Message-ID: <Czq1HL.56J@bonkers.taronga.com>
References: <3aqtsm$oa5@Tut.MsState.Edu> <3arb5u$and@wizard.pn.com> <3arsi5$ftg@tut.msstate.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 13:00:56 GMT
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In article <3arsi5$ftg@tut.msstate.edu>,
Stormy Henderson <Stormy@Grand.Mother.Com> wrote:
>Another question I just thought to ask Net/FreeBSD users, how much ram (not
>swap) does your system use with the standard inet and logging daemons and one
>shell? My Linux box uses 4.5 meg of ram with one tcsh. I haven't yet figured
>out how to tell how much ram I'm using with NetBSD. Swap yes, but not actual
>ram.
Try "ps u" (ps aux for everything). The columns you want to look at are VSZ
and RSS:
PS(1) FreeBSD Reference Manual PS(1)
NAME
ps - process status
...
rss the real memory (resident set) size of the process (in 1024 byte
units).
...
vsz virtual size in Kbytes (alias vsize)
...
BUGS
Since ps cannot run faster than the system and is run as any other sched-
uled process, the information it displays can never be exact.