NAME

Linux::MemInfo - Perl extension for accessing /proc/meminfo

SYNOPSIS

use Linux::MemInfo;

ABSTRACT

This module will allow you to easily extract the fields out of the
/proc/meminfo file.  All of the fields are stored in a hash.

DESCRIPTION

   %mem = get_mem_info
   foreach(sort keys %mem) {
       printf("%-20s\t%s\n",$_,$mem{$_});
   }

   Would yield the following:
   Active                  371368 
   ActiveAnon              104980 
   ActiveAnonUnit          kB 
   ActiveCache             266388 
   ActiveCacheUnit         kB 
   ActiveUnit              kB 
   Buffers                 80968 
   BuffersUnit             kB 
   Cached                  272400 
   CachedUnit              kB 
   HighFree                0 
   HighFreeUnit            kB 
   HighTotal               0 
   HighTotalUnit           kB 
   Inact_clean             9976 
   Inact_cleanUnit         kB 
   Inact_dirty             0 
   Inact_dirtyUnit         kB 
   Inact_laundry           75480 
   Inact_laundryUnit       kB 
   Inact_target            91364 
   Inact_targetUnit        kB 
   LowFree                 11172 
   LowFreeUnit             kB 
   LowTotal                512540 
   LowTotalUnit            kB 
   MemFree                 11172 
   MemFreeUnit             kB 
   MemShared               0 
   MemSharedUnit           kB 
   MemTotal                512540 
   MemTotalUnit            kB 
   SwapCached              6768 
   SwapCachedUnit          kB 
   SwapFree                505096 
   SwapFreeUnit            kB 
   SwapTotal               522072 
   SwapTotalUnit           kB 
   mem_buffers             82911232 
   mem_cached              285868032 
   mem_free                11440128 
   mem_shared              0 
   mem_total               524840960 
   mem_used                513400832 
   swap_free               517218304 
   swap_total              534601728 
   swap_used               17383424 
   
   The raw data looks like this: cat /proc/meminfo
           total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
   Mem:  524840960 510504960 14336000        0 81543168 283406336
   Swap: 534601728 17448960 517152768
   MemTotal:       512540 kB
   MemFree:         14000 kB
   MemShared:           0 kB
   Buffers:         79632 kB
   Cached:         269932 kB
   SwapCached:       6832 kB
   Active:         371352 kB
   ActiveAnon:     106300 kB
   ActiveCache:    265052 kB
   Inact_dirty:         0 kB
   Inact_laundry:   73628 kB
   Inact_clean:      9296 kB
   Inact_target:    90852 kB
   HighTotal:           0 kB
   HighFree:            0 kB
   LowTotal:       512540 kB
   LowFree:         14000 kB
   SwapTotal:      522072 kB
   SwapFree:       505032 kB

SEE ALSO

None

AUTHOR

Chad Kerner, <chadkerner@yahoo.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Chad Kerner

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.