From: Rob Love <rml@ximian.com>
To: unki@netshadow.at
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: /proc/meminfo values
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:31:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072107066.3318.17.camel@fur> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1072104601.1165.33.camel@winsucks>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-22 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-22 14:50 /proc/meminfo values Andreas Unterkircher
2003-12-22 15:18 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-22 15:31 ` Rob Love [this message]
2003-12-22 15:34 ` Andreas Unterkircher
2003-12-22 18:40 ` Mike Fedyk
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