how to get info about memory ?

[Popeanga Marian_1]

Hello,

I am interested in getting the following info:
- phisical RAM total and available( or used )
- virtual RAM -- -----------------------
- swap - ---------------------------
- shared ----------------------------
- buffers ---------------------------
- cache ----------------------------

(without looking at top, swapinfo requires root privileges)

[Con O'Kelly]

Hi

Without root its a bit more difficult.

If you have glance installed you can use this to get alot of the info you are after.
Options:
m for memory
w for swap
t for tables (buffer, shared mem etc)
? for list of all options.

Also 'top' doesn't usually require root priveleges.

Alternatively look at using sudo to give you access to run commands with root priveleges.

Cheers
Con

[Popeanga Marian_1]

Do you know some files from where to read this info ?
Any other command witch will do this ?

[Ollie R]

Hi,

You could try running "dmesg", but you again need root privileges to do this.

Alternatively you could read the file "/var/adm/syslog/syslog.log" which contains most of the information you require. You should be able to read this file as a non-root user.

Hope this helps,

Ollie.

[Con O'Kelly]

There is no file as such that stores all this info. You really need root access to get all this info or glance.
For Physical RAM you should be able to read the /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file
Look for Memory information.

Cheers
Con

[KCS_1]

Hi,

you can see the informations by the Glance which is a purchase product.

After installed,execute then you will get.





Best Regards.


- Patrick

[RolandH]

For Memory

cat /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log|grep Phy


For buffer activity:
sar -b 5 5 (5 intervals/every 5th second)

For swap activity:
sar -w 5 5 (5 intervals/every 5th second)

But, I think for a normal user it is better to use glance. It is more easy to bring all this values in a relation to each other.

Regards
Roland

[Popeanga Marian_1]

I am working on a project witch must be able to reveal all those information.( the server don't need to install any aditional software)

[Geoff Wild]

Why don't you run something like sysinfo204 or SysAudit or cfg2html?

Then, just make the output files available to all users...

sysinfo204 attached...

http://www.backupcentral.com/sysaudit.html

http://come.to/cfg2html


Rgds...Geoff

[RolandH]

Hi,

perhaps this thread can help you

--> http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xec87227a6ab4d711900a0090279cd0f9,00.html


Roland


Do not forget to assign points :-}

[Srinivas Thokala_1]

Use
#grep -i physical /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log
and look for Physical.

Srini