Linux::SysInfo - Perl interface to the sysinfo(2) Linux system call.

Version 0.13

    use Linux::SysInfo qw/sysinfo/;

    my $si = sysinfo;
    print "$_: $si->{$_}\n" for keys %$si;

This module is a wrapper around the sysinfo(2) Linux system call. It gives information about the current uptime, load average, memory usage and processes running. Other systems have also this system call (e.g. Solaris), but in most cases the returned information is different.

This constant is set to 1 if your kernel supports the three extended fields totalhigh, freehigh and mem_unit ; and to 0 otherwise.

This function takes no argument. It returns undef on failure or a hash reference whose keys are the members name of the struct sysinfo on success :

• uptime
  
  Seconds elapsed since the system booted.
• load1, load5, load15
  
  1, 5 and 15 minutes load average.
• totalram
  
  Total usable main memory size.
• freeram
  
  Available memory size.
• sharedram
  
  Amount of shared memory.
• bufferram
  
  Memory used by buffers.
• totalswap
  
  Total swap space size.
• freeswap
  
  Swap space still available.
• procs
  
  Number of current processes.

Prior to Linux 2.3.23 on i386 and 2.3.48 on all other architectures, the memory sizes were given in bytes. Since then, the following members are also available and all the memory sizes are given as multiples of mem_unit bytes :

• totalhigh
  
  Total high memory size.
• freehigh
  
  Available high memory size.
• mem_unit
  
  Memory unit size in bytes.

The only function of this module, sysinfo, and the constant LS_HAS_EXTENDED are only exported on request. Functions are also exported by the :funcs tag, and constants by :consts.

If you upgrade your kernel to a greater version than 2.3.23 on i386 or 2.3.48 on any other platform, you will need to rebuild the module to access the extended fields.

Moreover, since the perl hash function has changed after the 5.6 version, you will also need to recompile the module if you upgrade your perl from a version earlier than 5.6.

perl 5.6.

The sysinfo(2) man page.

Sys::Info : Gather information about your system.

Sys::CpuLoad : Try several different methods to retrieve the load average.

BSD::getloadavg : Wrapper to the getloadavg(3) BSD system call.

Vincent Pit, <perl at profvince.com>, http://www.profvince.com.

You can contact me by mail or on irc.perl.org (vincent).

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-linux-sysinfo at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Linux-SysInfo. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Linux::SysInfo

Tests code coverage report is available at http://www.profvince.com/perl/cover/Linux-SysInfo.

Copyright 2007,2008,2009,2010 Vincent Pit, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.