showing total/free memory

[Andrew L. Gould]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:58 pm, Chris Pressey wrote:
> 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

oooo...how nice.

Thanks.

Andrew Gould