Linux::MemInfo - Perl extension for accessing /proc/meminfo
use Linux::MemInfo;
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.
%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
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Chad Kerner, <chadkerner@yahoo.com>
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.
To install Linux::MemInfo, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Linux::MemInfo
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Linux::MemInfo
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.