howto calculate free memory from top

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said:
> Charles Swiger wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> >> How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any
> >> given point in time?
> > 
> > What do you mean by "free memory"?
> 
> Memory that can be used by other programs before the vm starts using
> swap.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#TOP-MEMORY-STATES
does a pretty good job of explaining the states.

> So they _are_ available for use then? And thus are relatively free,
> correct?

All memory except for Wired is "free", to varying degrees.

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	Dan Nelson
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