~1100 computers.
"Slow" is the difference between a few minutes and a few hours of runtime, barring threading. I hate to think that I would have to write a parallel to WMI as a local machine service to be able to quickly poll this information for my domain. Come to think of it, that would kill 2 birds with one service...:)
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 1:33 PM
To: Messenger, Mark
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Win32::AdminMisc::GetMemoryInfo reporting unrealistic data
"Messenger, Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm.. that works, but it's slow as snot compared to other methods.
I have given my opinion on this before.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-win32-admin/1382647
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-win32-admin/1385794
I do recognize that not everyone shares my opinion :-).
Do you need to do this for a large number of systems?
> Sigh. TotalPhysicalMemory in Win32_ComputerSystem seems a little
> more accurate than TotalVisibleMemorySize, so far.
Good point; I had missed that one.
- Pat
