On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 05:13:37PM +0100, Florian Pelz wrote: > 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. Hello, Thank you Florian. Actually, I already knew it's the same, I just thought that he could use the free command instead of parsing it himself. You're right. Performance-wise, it's pretty much the same.
