procps in bsd

[neeraj shrestha]

well 
bsd "watch" doesnot allow me to continuously monitor a process or
command!! and also "top" doesnot shows the total physical memory that my
system has?


On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 10:46, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:25, neeraj shrestha wrote:
> > i need "watch" and "free" commmand at least!!
> > is there bsd equivalent of these linux utilities?
> 
> Well there is a FreeBSD command called watch which snoops on TTYs..
> You can use top to find out how much RAM is free.
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 22:38, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, neeraj shrestha wrote:
> > > > i could not find the "procps" port or package for freebsd??
> > > > if there is available let me know!!
> > >
> > > procps is the Linux /proc file system utilities. My package description
> > > is: The Linux /proc file system utilities are tools for reporting about
> > > and modifying the state of the system, including memory, processes,
> > > sending signals to processes, etc. The commands include free, oldps,
> > > pgrep, pkill, ps, skill, snice, sysctl, tload, top, vmstat, w and watch.
> > > (kill is not installed; it is available in the sysutils/util-linux
> > > package.) This version of procps is maintained by Albert Cahalan, based
> > > on original code from Michael K. Johnson.
> > >
> > > I packaged it for Pkgsrc but ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM= Linux-*-* because this
> > > uses Linux include/asm/page.h. I never wasted time trying to port to and
> > > *BSD, because I already have the tools I needed.
> > >
> > > Is there some reason you need procps on FreeBSD? What tool(s) do you
> > > need?
> > >
> > > If you need the Linux procps, then install your Linux compat packages. It
> > > is included.
> > >
> > >  Jeremy C. Reed
> > >
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