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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Checking Memory?
Date: 25 Jul 1995 09:19:46 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Radnor (klo@gate.net) wrote:
: 	I've checked the FAQ's, and there doesn't seem to be any section 
: on how to check how much memory you have left to the system. In Linux, 
: it's something like freemem or checkmem. It also checks how much swap you 
: are using.

: 	On the topic of swap- is there a way for me to check how much 
: swap I'm using, or even if it's there at all? Should it be somewhere in df?

there's no exact equivalent to linux's "free" - but try swapinfo, pstat -s
or the best i think top 
 
t 
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