Re: /proc/meminfo values

[Rob Love]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 09:50, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:

> cat /proc/meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  244191232 238395392  5795840        0  2732032 138403840
> Swap: 509923328 147443712 362479616

This view is gone.  Use something like free(1) or a custom script to
recreate it.

> but with 2.6 it looks like they have been removed. where can i get the
> exactly free memory (+ swap) from the kernel so i havn't to use the
> kb-values which i get back from /proc/meminfo?
> 
> i try to check the source good from "free" (with the -b option it
> returns the bytes-value) which seems to simple multiply *1024 to
> the kb values.

But everything is page granularity already, which is 4KB on x86.  Going
to bytes would not gain you anything.

	Rob Love


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