Measuring Free memory

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Mario Lobo <lobo at bsd.com.br> wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 19:03:03 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > First, you'll need a precise definition of what you mean by "free
> memory".
>
> Free physical memory available.
>
> >
> > Add the "-H" flag to get that value more precise.  I suspect, however,
> > that precision isn't really the right term for what you're after.
>
> I caught the -H flag right after I wrote the mail. The result has to be
> multiplied by 1024.
>
> It's possible you're right but what I am trying to do is to monitor the
> amount
> of free physical memory still on the system.
>
> To make a long story short, I am in a long stretch in trying to find out
> why
> 8-STABLE amd64+VBox+nvidia driver is freezing my system to power button
> point.
>

Well I hope you find the issue, I'm experiencing the same issue siimplying
trying to csup from 8-RELEASE to  8-STABLE.  From what I've been able to
gather I think this only applicable to amd64.  You might have a different
reason for wanting to know this, but I can assure you my lockups aren't due
to a lack of memory from the host anyways.  I have an order of magnitude
more free memory(according to top) in my hosts than my VM requires when it's
running and it still locks on every csup attempt.

Mem: 112M Active, 12M Inact, 1543M Wired, 632K Cache, 2245M Free

VM is set to use 256MB.

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Adam Vande More