On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 09:15:06PM +0100, Florian Pelz wrote: > 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. 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.
