BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

Paul Macdonald paul at ifdnrg.com
Wed Aug 18 15:55:26 UTC 2010


  On 18/08/2010 16:18, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
> hello,
>
> I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as
> free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free
> memory and swap.
>
> I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do
> this, I am however looking for something in the base system (if such a
> utility exists).
>
> I also know that top(1) gives this info, and I could certainly use that,
> I just wanted the nearest BSD sibling of free(1).)
>
> Thank you!
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ralf engelschall wrote a nice perl script which does this


http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/dist/

(the free-memory script)

Paul.

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