On 03/06/2016 04:47 PM, Jonathan Horacio Villatoro Córdoba wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:23:33PM +0100, Andre Schmidt wrote: >> hello archers, >> >> thought i ask here first, before i try some kernel mailing list. >> >> i'm writing (for fun) a tiny daemon that sends linux usage (cpu, mem, net, >> etc.) statistics as efficiently as possible to another machine, repeatedly, >> to get "live" data. >> >> at the moment i'm simply sending /proc files, but they sometimes have too >> much data. so was wondering if there is a more efficient way to get (only >> parts of) the data thats available in /proc? >> >> for example, /proc/meminfo has all this info: >> >> […] >> >> if /proc is the only way to get this info, i wonder if creating a kernel >> module for this would be more efficient, or even possible? > > Hello Andre, > > According to what you need, you may want to use the 'free' command > instead, as its output is much simpler than the output of the > /proc/meminfo file > > […] >
Hello, The free command gets its information from /proc/meminfo. Performance-wise, it doesn't really matter if a few additional lines need to be parsed.
