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:

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

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

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 s

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: