Shell commands to find available memory

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Aug 14 16:04:18 EDT 2012


Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > Looks like hw.memsize is total memory. hw.usermem is available
 > memory. Somebody correct me if I am wrong.

I had thought so too, but after opening a LOT of applications and seeing 
avail. mem. drop in Activity Monitor, that number remained unchanged in 
subsequent calls.


 > mAHAH! vm_stat will give you what you want.

The man for vm_stat suggests it reports only on virtual memory rather 
than physical. :(

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