1MemInfo(3)            User Contributed Perl Documentation           MemInfo(3)
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NAME

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

9         use Sys::MemInfo qw(totalmem freemem totalswap);
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11         print "total memory: ".(&totalmem / 1024)."\n";
12         print "free memory:  ".(&freemem / 1024)."\n";
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14         print "total swap: ".(&totalswap / 1024)."\n";
15         print "free swap:  ".(Sys::MemInfo::get("freeswap") / 1024)."\n";
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DESCRIPTION

18       Sys::MemInfo return the total amount of free and used physical memory
19       in bytes in totalmem and freemem variables.
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21       Total amount of free and user swap memory are alse returned in
22       totalswap and freeswap variables.
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24       This module has been tested on Linux 3.13.0, UnixWare 7.1.2, AIX5,
25       OpenBSD 3.8, NetBSD 2.0.2, FreBSD 5.4, HPUX11, Solaris 9, Tru64 5.1,
26       Irix 6.5, Mac OS X 10.2 darwin and Windows XP.
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28       It should work on FreeBSD 4 and Windows 9X/ME/NT/200X/Vista.
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METHODS

31       availkeys
32           Return list of all accessor keys (freemem, totalmem, etc.)  This is
33           useful for dumping out all known information from the object by
34           calling get() on all of the returned keys.
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36       freemem
37           Returns free physical memory in bytes.
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39       freeswap
40           Returns free swap space in bytes.
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42       get Returns the value of the passed key.
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44       totalmem
45           Returns total physical memory size in bytes.
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47       totalswap
48           Returns total swap space in bytes.
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AUTHOR

51       Sylvain Cresto <scresto@gmail.com>
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53       Thanks to Laurent Dufour and Wilson Snyder.
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BUGS

56       Please send bug-reports to scresto@gmail.com
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LICENCE

59       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
60       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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63       Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2014, 2016 - Sylvain Cresto
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