. > On Mar 17, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Manuel Solis <solis.man...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > >> El 17/03/2017, a las 05:04, Mihai Popescu <mih...@gmail.com> escribió: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am using top to show running programs activity on an OpenBSD system. >> >> Is there another better command to show in detail the memory used by > programs? > > Top is really a good command, you should see de man page for more options. > >> >> My system has 8GB physical RAM. Looking at this, can someone tell me >> if OpenBSD uses the "swap memory" model used by other OSes, basically >> moving chunks from physical memory to the swap partition when they are >> not used? > > Yes it does, you could use the #disklabel <disk> command to see it >> >> If a program ask for a memory allocation, is this request satisfied >> imediately if there is enough physical RAM available or is it done at >> the moment the program needs to do read/write on that memory? >> >> Expanding the first question, is there a command to show all these >> details, like total memory used, static and dynamic, how much is >> physical or swap, etc? >> > top is the command that you are looking for :) > > >> Thank you. >> > > I hope that information is useful for your needs, i recommend you to look at > the Faq page > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html > <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html> > they really did a great job explaining everything and most of what it has are > practical examples, if you need expanded theory then you should get the book > Absolute OpenBSD - By Michael W Lucas, it helped me a lot. > http://www.nostarch.com/obenbsd2e <http://www.nostarch.com/obenbsd2e> > > Best reggards!!!!!!! > > Manuel
I think systat or vmstat may be helpful.
