You could also use time(1), the command, not the shell built-in:
$ env time -l echo
0.00 real 0.01 user 0.00 sys
552 maximum resident set size
0 average shared memory size
0 average unshared data size
0 average unshared stack size
51 minor page faults
15 major page faults
0 swaps
4 block input operations
0 block output operations
0 messages sent
0 messages received
0 signals received
4 voluntary context switches
0 involuntary context switches
$
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Manuel Solis <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello again!!
>
>
> Yes, indeed systat and vmstat are a good options too.
>
> Mihai Popescu,
>
> Please try one of these examples and see if they show you the information
> you are looking for:
>
> suggestion1: $ top |head -n5| tail -n1
> suggestion2: $ vmstat -s|more
> suggestion3: $ vmstat -m|more
> suggestion4: $ systat
>
> I hope this information will help :)
>
> Manuel
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:19 AM, Edgar Pettijohn <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> .
>>
>> > On Mar 17, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Manuel Solis <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >> El 17/03/2017, a las 05:04, Mihai Popescu <[email protected]> escribió:
>> >>
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> I am using top to show running programs activity on an OpenBSD system.
>> >>
>> >> Is there another better command to show in detail the memory used by
>> > programs?
>> >
>> > Top is really a good command, you should see de man page for more
>> options.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> My system has 8GB physical RAM. Looking at this, can someone tell me
>> >> if OpenBSD uses the "swap memory" model used by other OSes, basically
>> >> moving chunks from physical memory to the swap partition when they are
>> >> not used?
>> >
>> > Yes it does, you could use the #disklabel <disk> command to see it
>> >>
>> >> If a program ask for a memory allocation, is this request satisfied
>> >> imediately if there is enough physical RAM available or is it done at
>> >> the moment the program needs to do read/write on that memory?
>> >>
>> >> Expanding the first question, is there a command to show all these
>> >> details, like total memory used, static and dynamic, how much is
>> >> physical or swap, etc?
>> >>
>> > top is the command that you are looking for :)
>> >
>> >
>> >> Thank you.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I hope that information is useful for your needs, i recommend you to
>> look at
>> > the Faq page
>> > https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html
>> > <https://www.openbsd.org/faq/index.html>
>> > they really did a great job explaining everything and most of what it
>> has are
>> > practical examples, if you need expanded theory then you should get the
>> book
>> > Absolute OpenBSD - By Michael W Lucas, it helped me a lot.
>> > http://www.nostarch.com/obenbsd2e <http://www.nostarch.com/obenbsd2e>
>> >
>> > Best reggards!!!!!!!
>> >
>> > Manuel
>>
>> I think systat or vmstat may be helpful.
>>
>
>
>
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