In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said: > Charles Swiger wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > >> How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any > >> given point in time? > > > > What do you mean by "free memory"? > > Memory that can be used by other programs before the vm starts using > swap.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#TOP-MEMORY-STATES does a pretty good job of explaining the states. > So they _are_ available for use then? And thus are relatively free, > correct? All memory except for Wired is "free", to varying degrees. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"