Re: /proc/meminfo values

[Andreas Unterkircher]

Am Mon, den 22.12.2003 schrieb Rob Love um 16:31:
> 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.

Ok, i'm unterstand :) I will simple multiply the proc values with 1024
when i want to use them with the cricket-snmp-collector. this seems to
be exactly enough - i only want to know - thanks rob and rik for the
info!

greetings, andi

> 
> 	Rob Love
> 
> 

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