showing total/free memory

[Matthew Hunt]

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.

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