BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

Mike Jeays mike.jeays at rogers.com
Wed Aug 18 21:35:01 UTC 2010


On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:
> > Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice?
> 
> Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need.
> 
> The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, the memory
> portion is more cryptic, I guess due to differences in how FreeBSD
> allocates memory.
> 
> Although a BSD free would probably be easier to remember, top -n 1 does the
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alias free='top -n 1 '  ?!
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