physmem: a new program to report memory information (original) (raw)
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From: | Assaf Gordon |
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Subject: | physmem: a new program to report memory information |
Date: | Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:35:30 -0400 |
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Hello,
Related to the previous sort+memory envvar usage thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.coreutils.general/3028/focus=3090 .
Attached is a suggestion for a tiny command-line program "physmem", that similarly to "nproc", exposes the gnulib functions "physmem_total()" and "physmem_available()".
The code is closely modeled after nproc, and the "recommended" memory usage is calculated using sort's default_sort_size() .
The program works like this:
$ ./src/physmem --help Usage: ./src/physmem [OPTION]... Prints information about physical memory.
-t, --total print the total physical memory. -a, --available print the available physical memory. -r, --recommended print a safe recommended amount of useable memory. -h, --human-readable print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G) --si like -h, but use powers of 1000 not 1024 --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit
Report physmem bugs to address@hidden GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> Report physmem translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'physmem invocation'
The actual working code (at the bottom of physmem.c) is:
switch(memory_report_type) { case total: memory = physmem_total(); break;
case available:
memory = physmem_available();
break;
case recommended:
memory = default_sort_size();
break;
}
char buf[LONGEST_HUMAN_READABLE + 1]; fputs (human_readable (memory, buf, human_output_opts,1,1),stdout); fputs("\n", stdout);
So it's very simple, and rely on existing coreutils code.
Please let me know if this is something you'd be willing to include in coreutils.
Thanks, -gordon
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