>>> 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. >> > > Sorry, I didn't express myself properly. I didn't mean to criticize > free. What I meant to say was that the time it takes to parse > /proc/meminfo or free is negligible. It doesn't need to be any more > efficient. free parses /proc/meminfo. libgtop parses /proc/meminfo. > Querying the information probably takes much more time than parsing it. > > Your suggestion to use free may indeed be useful if the original poster > wants parsing to be slightly simpler and does not mind the additional > dependency. My impression was that they considered parsing to be too > inefficient. there's also `sysinfo(2)` -- damjan
