OS X Monitor Virtual Memory Usage from Command Line | OS X has a simple command line tool to monitor virtual memory usage: vm_stat. I’ll show you how it works! Crack open a terminal and run vm_stat. You will see an output somewhat like below: $ vm_stat Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes) Pages free: 54492. Pages active: 541989. Pages inactive: 155818.
