Real and Free Memory

[Özkan KIRIK]

Thanks for your fast reply.

What about free memory?
does  vm.vmtotal   give right value?


Marc Olzheim wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 11:42:57AM +0300, zkan KIRIK wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>i am trying to measure free memory and real memory.
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>>but values at dmesg.boot and sysctl  are diffrent.
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>># cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep real
>>real memory  = 268435456 (256 MB)
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>># sysctl vm.vmtotal  | grep Real
>>Real Memory:            (Total: 232792K Active 122448K)
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>>As above, values are not equal,
>>so that, i cant trust the Free Memory value that sysctl gives.
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>>how can i get right values?
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>sysctl hw.physmem
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>Zlo
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