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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where are the FreeBSD tools?
Date: 8 Aug 1995 12:51:45 +0200
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Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote:
> I'm not clear why top isn't included, but it is readily available
Since the Unix standard is ps(1).
>in the ports/packages collection. I keep a window running top on my X
>desktop all the time to monitor the condition of the machine. As for
>"free"... you mean swapinfo(8)?
swainfo is rather deprecated. Use `pstat -sk' instead (basically what
swapinfo is doing right now). Perhaps `pstat -T' is the quickest way
to get an overview of used resources.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)