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.