Want to know how much memory (in bytes) your machine has installed? Let sysctl(8) tell you with the following command: sysctl hw.realmem The realmem value is memory before the kernel and modules are loaded, whereas hw.physmem is what is left after they were loaded. The number of active CPUs is displayed using this command: sysctl hw.ncpu -- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>