showing total/free memory
Chris Pressey
cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Wed Jan 28 13:54:33 PST 2004
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:26:00 +1100
Rowdy <david at fielden.com.au> wrote:
> Matthew Hunt wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:03:46AM +1100, Rowdy wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I am setting up MRTG and at the moment I am parsing /var/run/dmesg.boot
> >>and the output from `top -b -d 1` to get total and free memory
> >>respectively, but I hope there is an easier way.
> >
> >
> > Try "vmstat" instead.
> >
>
> Thought of that. According to the man page, vmstat shows, for memory:
>
> avm active virtual pages
> fre size of the free list
>
> Does the size of the free list correspond to actual free memory? I
> wasn't sure whether that was the case or not.
>
> Also, it's a case of parsing the output from top or parsing the output
> from vmstat - I had hoped there would be a simple command that would
> show memory state :)
>
> Dave
Well, I'm not sure if it works on 5.x, but you could try
/usr/ports/sysutils/muse
Should be easier to parse than the other options.
-Chris
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