/* vim: tabstop=2 shiftwidth=2 expandtab textwidth=80 linebreak wrap * * Copyright 2012 Matthew McCormick * Copyright 2015 Pawel 'l0ner' Soltys * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ #include #include #include #include "memory.h" #include "conversions.h" void mem_status( MemoryStatus & status ) { std::string line; std::string substr; size_t substr_start; size_t substr_len; unsigned int total_mem; unsigned int used_mem; /* Since linux uses some RAM for disk caching, the actuall used ram is lower * than what sysinfo(), top or free reports. htop reports the usage in a * correct way. The memory used for caching doesn't count as used, since it * can be freed in any moment. Usually it hapens automatically, when an * application requests memory. * In order to calculate the ram that's actually used we need to use the * following formula: * total_ram - free_ram - buffered_ram - cached_ram * * example data, junk removed, with comments added: * * MemTotal: 61768 kB old * MemFree: 1436 kB old * MemAvailable ????? kB ?? * MemShared: 0 kB old (now always zero; not calculated) * Buffers: 1312 kB old * Cached: 20932 kB old * SwapTotal: 122580 kB old * SwapFree: 60352 kB old */ std::ifstream memory_info("/proc/meminfo"); while( std::getline( memory_info, line ) ) { substr_start = 0; substr_len = line.find_first_of( ':' ); substr = line.substr( substr_start, substr_len ); substr_start = line.find_first_not_of( " ", substr_len + 1 ); substr_len = line.find_first_of( 'k' ) - substr_start; if( substr.compare( "MemTotal" ) == 0 ) { // get total memory total_mem = stoi( line.substr( substr_start, substr_len ) ); } else if( substr.compare( "MemFree" ) == 0 ) { used_mem = total_mem - stoi( line.substr( substr_start, substr_len ) ); } else if( substr.compare( "Buffers" ) == 0 || substr.compare( "Cached" ) == 0 ) { used_mem -= stoi( line.substr( substr_start, substr_len ) ); } } // we want megabytes on output, but since the values already come as // kilobytes we need to divide them by 1024 only once, thus we use // KILOBYTES status.used_mem = convert_unit(static_cast< float >( used_mem ), MEGABYTES, KILOBYTES); status.total_mem = convert_unit(static_cast< float >( total_mem ), MEGABYTES, KILOBYTES); }