Comments on: FreeBSD find out RAM size including total amount of free and used memory size

By: Stefan Lasiewski

Stefan Lasiewski — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:24:53 +0000

I tried freecolor, but I get an error:

# /usr/local/bin/freecolor -m -o
Bus error: 10

Any idea what that means?

By: jackwade

jackwade — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:18:12 +0000

perl script url 404′s

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:32:48 +0000

It is quite possible that freecolor may have some sort of bug or problem. Send an email to its author and report your problem.

By: Manish

Manish — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:22:28 +0000

Hi,

I have FreeBSD 7.2 AMD 64 bit vserion installed with 8G memory and when I use freecolor command it only displays 4Gig memory instead of 8Gig.

# dmesg |grep mem
real memory = 9395240960 (8960 MB)
avail memory = 8391131136 (8002 MB)

Is that freecolor command doesn’t support for more that 4G of RAM is installed.

Thank you
Manish

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:42:29 +0000

for me, the same error appears. any suggestions?

By: Aki

Aki — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:55:12 +0000

Installing it in Darwin and also in OS X Leopard:

Illegal division by zero at /usr/local/bin/free line 51.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:36:55 +0000

Try upgrading port and base system. If it is not fixed, try these suggestions.

By: Wirasto S. Karim

Wirasto S. Karim — Fri, 01 May 2009 12:14:03 +0000

# freecolor -t -m -o
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1514 535 978 0 0 1
Swap: 2048 0 2048
Total: 4294965248 = ( 3117 (used) + 3028 (free))
Segmentation fault

What’s wrong ??

By: vivek

vivek — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:23:50 +0000

andrei,

Heh, I do have wget installed but you are right on target about default ftp client. The faq has been updated. I think you still need to run chmod +x free

By: andrei manescu

andrei manescu — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:18:08 +0000

Edited:
fetch -o /usr/local/bin/free http://www.cyberciti.biz/files/scripts/freebsd-memory.pl.txt
is more useful. Then chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/free

By: andrei manescu

andrei manescu — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:15:59 +0000

Edited:fetch -o /usr/local/bin/free http://www.cyberciti.biz/files/scripts/freebsd-memory.pl.txt
is more useful.

By: andrei manescu

andrei manescu — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:13:20 +0000

Vivek, FreeBSD does not have wget by default. Maybe you should replace wget with fetch.

It’s visible that you’re more used to Linux :P

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:45:48 +0000

same thing as “sysctl -a|grep mem”

great post though, most users have no idea how to obtain this information in FreeBSD