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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.deltanet.com!usenet From: "Thumper!" <thumper@labiker.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: easy memory status tool? Date: 18 Sep 1995 01:54:08 GMT Organization: LA Biker Association Lines: 20 Message-ID: <43ijg0$3rv@news2.deltanet.com> References: <43dm5i$ouj@news2.deltanet.com> <VIXIE.95Sep16081846@wisdom.vix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rapier.interceptor.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i486) X-URL: news:VIXIE.95Sep16081846@wisdom.vix.com vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) wrote: >"top" Now, I could only get top to make sense... The Linux variant is much nicer and makes sense even to a novice like me, saying: Mem: 31260K av, 19000K used, 12260K free, 7672K shrd, 7352K buff Swap: 66556K av, 104K used, 66452K free whereas the bsdi top gives me: Memory: Real: 304K/6716K Virt: 1560K/113M Free: 4944K and "man top" doesn't explain it either -- Thumper! Leporidae Extrordinhare thumper@labiker.org http://www.labiker.org/thumper.html "Life is to achieve the impossible"