[arch-general] most efficient way to get linux kernel statistics

Florian Pelz pelzflorian at pelzflorian.de
Tue Mar 8 07:56:52 UTC 2016


On 03/07/2016 09:20 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:
> there's also `sysinfo(2)`
> 

I didn't know there's a syscall for that. That seems like the easiest
way to get memory data. I'm not sure if you can get the other
information the original poster wanted without parsing /proc though.

On 02/19/2016 04:01 AM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote:
> Don't worry. Actually, I understood your point perfectly. I suggested
> free only because I originally supposed the OP wanted his program to
> contain as little code as possible in his program, and didn't want to
> parse the file himself.
>

OK :) .


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