On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory
> (1GB) is
> > used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally memory
> usage
[..]
> How do you measure "memory usage"? The numbers from top(1)
> are mostly meaningless. Personally I think top should be
> removed from FreeBSD, because it confuses many people (in
> fact I think _most_ people don't interpret the numbers
> correctly), but some people seem to be in love with it. :-)
You can obtain reliable output from vmstat(8):
vmstat -m
vmstat -z
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Wojciech A. Koszek
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