09-22-2005
Linux memory usage
What's the best way to find out how much memory is being used/available? I tried using free, but I didn't quite understand the output. Can someone explain it?
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 16304536 16256376 48160 0 234000 15358344
-/+ buffers/cache: 664032 15640504
Swap: 4194192 0 4194192
$ man free
$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 15922 15877 44 0 228 15000
-/+ buffers/cache: 649 15273
Swap: 4095 0 4095
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sys::statistics::linux::memstats
Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats(3pm)
NAME
Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats - Collect linux memory information.
SYNOPSIS
use Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats;
my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats->new;
my $stat = $lxs->get;
DESCRIPTION
Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats gathers memory statistics from the virtual /proc filesystem (procfs).
For more information read the documentation of the front-end module Sys::Statistics::Linux.
MEMORY INFORMATIONS
Generated by /proc/meminfo.
memused - Total size of used memory in kilobytes.
memfree - Total size of free memory in kilobytes.
memusedper - Total size of used memory in percent.
memtotal - Total size of memory in kilobytes.
buffers - Total size of buffers used from memory in kilobytes.
cached - Total size of cached memory in kilobytes.
realfree - Total size of memory is real free (memfree + buffers + cached).
realfreeper - Total size of memory is real free in percent of total memory.
swapused - Total size of swap space is used is kilobytes.
swapfree - Total size of swap space is free in kilobytes.
swapusedper - Total size of swap space is used in percent.
swaptotal - Total size of swap space in kilobytes.
swapcached - Memory that once was swapped out, is swapped back in but still also is in the swapfile.
active - Memory that has been used more recently and usually not reclaimed unless absolutely necessary.
inactive - Memory which has been less recently used and is more eligible to be reclaimed for other purposes.
On earlier kernels (2.4) Inact_dirty + Inact_laundry + Inact_clean.
The following statistics are only available by kernels from 2.6.
slab - Total size of memory in kilobytes that used by kernel for data structure allocations.
dirty - Total size of memory pages in kilobytes that waits to be written back to disk.
mapped - Total size of memory in kilbytes that is mapped by devices or libraries with mmap.
writeback - Total size of memory that was written back to disk.
committed_as - The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
The following statistic is only available by kernels from 2.6.9.
commitlimit - Total amount of memory currently available to be allocated on the system.
METHODS
new()
Call "new()" to create a new object.
my $lxs = Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats->new;
It's possible to set the path to the proc filesystem.
Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats->new(
files => {
# This is the default
path => '/proc',
meminfo => 'meminfo',
}
);
get()
Call "get()" to get the statistics. "get()" returns the statistics as a hash reference.
my $stat = $lxs->get;
EXPORTS
No exports.
SEE ALSO
proc(5)
REPORTING BUGS
Please report all bugs to <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>.
AUTHOR
Jonny Schulz <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 by Jonny Schulz. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.14.2 2012-03-09 Sys::Statistics::Linux::MemStats(3pm)