How to calculate used memory on Mac OS by command line?
You can use the macOS equivalent to unix vmstat
, which is vm_stat
.
➜ vm_stat
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes)
Pages free: 139824.
Pages active: 1673261.
Pages inactive: 1073096.
Pages speculative: 2909.
Pages throttled: 0.
Pages wired down: 788478.
Pages purgeable: 226206.
[...]
To calculate the memory, multiply the number of pages with the page size (4096 bytes) and divide by 1024 to adjust the prefix to your needs.