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
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:
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.
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
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?
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:
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Mem: 72M Active,