| On a FreeBSD system I see: root@agrajag ~ # facter memory.system
{{{}}
available => "155.02 MiB",
available_bytes => 162549760,
capacity => "96.08%",
total => "3.87 GiB",
total_bytes => 4150763520,
used => "3.71 GiB",
used_bytes => 3988213760
} While this indicate the available memory being quite low, it is in reality not the case with just ~57% of the RAM being used: root@agrajag ~ # sysctl vm.stats.vm.v_page_count vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count vm.stats.vm.v_active_count
vm.stats.vm.v_page_count: 980446
vm.stats.vm.v_wire_count: 103938
vm.stats.vm.v_active_count: 432388 root@agrajag ~ # top -b
last pid: 30691; load averages: 1,22, 0,88, 0,80 up 15+21:38:11 12:15:02
119 processes: 2 running, 117 sleeping
CPU: 2,7% user, 0,0% nice, 1,0% system, 0,1% interrupt, 96,2% idle
Mem: 1751M Active, 834M Inact, 592M Laundry, 405M Wired, 148M Free {{root@agrajag ~ # vmstat -H
procs memory page disks faults cpu
r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr da0 cd0 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 48819820 176524 640 3 0 0 591 598 0 0 18 2224 871 3 1 96
}} The facter code rely on the the `fre` field of the vmstat output which is the "size of the free list" of the system virtual memory and does not reflect the size of the available memory. |
