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From: ahzz@dfwmm.net (Brian WOlfe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Systems Memory Usage
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:31:59
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	Actualy theres a reatime systems status display. You can get to it by
running "systat -vm <# secs to update>" you can get more help from man
about it for the rest of the displays.  As for a single sho displayI 
haven't found one yet. maybe someone can doa quickie port of free from
linux. ;)

	ahzz


On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 22:30:43, Casper <casper-@-hostile.net> wrote:

> I was wondering if there was some sort of utility to tell me how much
> memory was being used by the system. For example in linux there is 
> the program 'free' which shows you the amount being used and what 
> is free. 
> 
> Top doesn't seem to be reporting it correctly.
> Memory: Real: 58M/69M Virt: 81M/313M Free: 7140K
> I have 128MB of real memory and 200MB of swap.
> Maybe I am overlooking something here, but it doesn't seem to add up.
> 
> The system is running BSDi3.0
> 
> Thanks
> Casper
> 
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