Re: A novel idea....

Read #1, but skip the rest, it's opinion. BSD license, right? Without disagreeing with any of the previous points, let me step into evangelism mode here and borrow/add my own comments. Please take replies to the evangelism list, however (maybe post a variant of this on

Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)

Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following stats: free physical mem (avail ram) free swap total avail mem any two of the three would be great. If such a beast doesn't exist, what are the easiest calls to use to get at them so I could write some programs

Re: Easy way to compute memory stats? (procfs?)

: Is there an easy way (from script ideally) to get the following :stats: : :free physical mem (avail ram) This is going to be quite small on any busy machine, or machine that has a reasonable uptime. The VM system will cache things unless there's a demand for memory.