Memory detection

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 24-Aug-12 07:03, 1100110 wrote:
>
> On linux this is not so difficult to do.
>
> Those values are generally in /proc, and it seems to be portable across
> pretty much every distro with a relatively recent kernel.
>
> I have an extremely half-assed bit of code that prints the load average
> and the totaly % of mem used to my tmux session.
> It gives the exact same values that are seen in top, or htop.(without
> the overhead of parsing their output, cause that takes ~500ms, way too
> slow.)

If parsing takes 500ms then something is seriously wrong. What is size 
of the input to parse and the machine specs?


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Olshansky Dmitry