RE: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Tal Cohen
A combination really. I am trying to ascertain two pieces of information: 1. How much RAM is on a machine (total RAM). 2. How much of it is currently in use. SWAP/TMP areas are not of interest. With regards to portability, it is OK if I end up writing different code for different machines (BAD

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Federico Lucifredi wrote: I could try to list the horrors of past versions of SNMP, but Chris seems much more of an expert in it so I will pass the honor and go to bed instead. z :-) Well, no, not an expert as such, I was mainly just summarizing examples from

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Andrew M. Langmead
On Jul 15, 2004, at 6:34 AM, Tal Cohen wrote: With regards to portability, it is OK if I end up writing different code for different machines (BAD Tal, BAD!!!). However I do want to keep it as light weight and internal as possible. If you can't use an external infrastructure like SNMP, then you

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Dan Boger
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:33:10PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: LOL... hadn't thought of that one. Besides, would you really want to sshcache your password just for that? Don't need to cache your password, just create a key that executes this one command, and use that. Assuming, of course,

Re: [Boston.pm] reading in HTML with SSI and processing in perl

2004-07-15 Thread Alex Brelsfoard
At 04:56 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote: Saddly, yes I am committed to having to use SSI. I have used HTML::Template before, and enjoyed it. The problem is that I am trying to create an all-emcompassing email form script that does EVERYTHING. Our current setup is that we have header and footer files

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Dan Boger wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:33:10PM -0400, Federico Lucifredi wrote: LOL... hadn't thought of that one. Besides, would you really want to sshcache your password just for that? Don't need to cache your password, just create a key that executes this one command,

Re: [Boston.pm] Thanks Damian!

2004-07-15 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Daniel Allen wrote: Here are some brief notes; I hope they're helpful to fill in gaps. Here are some notes from when the talk was given at YAPC: http://rjbs.manxome.org/yapc/2004/advtech.txt He got cut off by a dead laptop battery towards the end, but it fills in a few