howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I've been wondering about this for a while: How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any given point in time? My top usually looks like this: Mem: 72M Active, 668M Inact, 165M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 70M Free Swap: 2048M Total, 5448K Used, 2043M Free I

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Charles Swiger
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? My top usually looks like this: Mem: 72M Active, 668M Inact, 165M Wired, 29M Cache, 112M Buf, 70M Free Swap:

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
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.

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: 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?

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said: So they _are_ available for use then? And thus are relatively free, correct? All memory except for Wired is free, to varying degrees. OK. Just out of curiosity, what would you say about my example then: -- Mem: 72M Active,