Shell commands to find available memory

[Richard Gaskin]

Andre Garzia wrote:
> Maybe one of the keys output from:
>
> sysctl -a | grep mem
>
> will help you.

While I was initially impressed with the speed, I'm not sure the free 
mem is among the output - here's an example:

hw.physmem = 2147483648
hw.usermem = 1420754944
hw.memsize = 2147483648
vm.memory_pressure: 0
hw.memsize: 2147483648
machdep.memmap.Conventional: 2143322112
machdep.memmap.RuntimeServices: 331776
machdep.memmap.ACPIReclaim: 86016
machdep.memmap.ACPINVS: 2301952
machdep.memmap.PalCode: 0
machdep.memmap.Reserved: 0
machdep.memmap.Unusable: 0
machdep.memmap.Other: 0
appleprofile.actions.callstack.max_memory: 0
appleprofile.actions.kevent.max_memory: 0
appleprofile.actions.register_state.max_memory: 0
appleprofile.actions.threadinfo.max_memory: 0


Any other clues?

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