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Sys::MemInfo - Memory informations

SYNOPSIS

	 use Sys::MemInfo qw(totalmem freemem totalswap);

	 print "total memory: ".(&totalmem / 1024)."
";
	 print "free memory:  ".(&freemem / 1024)."
";

	 print "total swap: ".(&totalswap / 1024)."
";
	 print "free swap:  ".(Sys::MemInfo::get("freeswap") / 1024)."
";

DESCRIPTION

       Sys::MemInfo return the total amount of free and used physical memory in bytes in totalmem and freemem variables.

       Total amount of free and user swap memory are alse returned in totalswap and freeswap variables.

       This module has been tested on Linux 2.6.10, UnixWare 7.1.2, AIX5, OpenBSD 3.8, NetBSD 2.0.2, FreBSD 5.4, HPUX11, Solaris 9, Tru64 5.1,
       Irix 6.5, Mac OS X 10.2 darwin and Windows XP.

       It should work on FreeBSD 4 and Windows 9X/ME/NT/200X/Vista.

METHODS

       availkeys
	   Return list of all accessor keys (freemem, totalmem, etc.)  This is useful for dumping out all known information from the object by
	   calling get() on all of the returned keys.

       freemem
	   Returns free physical memory in bytes.

       freeswap
	   Returns free swap space in bytes.

       get Returns the value of the passed key.

       totalmem
	   Returns total physical memory size in bytes.

       totalswap
	   Returns total swap space in bytes.

AUTHOR

       Sylvain Cresto <scresto@gmail.com>

       Thanks to Laurent Dufour and Wilson Snyder.

BUGS

       Please send bug-reports to scresto@gmail.com

LICENCE

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
       published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
       Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 - Sylvain Cresto

perl v5.16.3							    2006-11-09								MemInfo(3)