MemInfo(3)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           MemInfo(3)


NAME
       Sys::MemInfo - query the total free and used physical memory

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

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

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

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 3.13.0, 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 same terms as Perl itself.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2014, 2016 - Sylvain Cresto

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-26                        MemInfo(3)