free

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Fri May 13 05:27:44 PDT 2011


On Fri, 13 May 2011, Pierre Abbat wrote:

> There's a program called "free" on Linux which outputs the amount of 
> free memory. I checked pkgin and found that there is also a package 
> called "free" in DFly. So I installed it and got this:
> 
> -bash-4.1$ free
> Kid, get yerself a System: www.netbsd.org
> 
> Why?

Probably the package should be marked with:
ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=NetBSD-*-*

But it is a shell script that gets its data via "vmstat -s".

Have a look at it, maybe you can get it to work.





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