RE: Using meminfo information

["Waldher, Travis R" <Travis R Waldher boeing com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Karl Pearson [mailto:karlp ourldsfamily com] 
> Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 9:28 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: RE: Using meminfo information

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> 
> I give. If meminfo can tell us active memory, why can't sar. 

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> 
> Okay, more than was asked.
> 
> Karl
> 

I'm wondering the same thing myself.  I could call Redhat but that
company is almost as bad as MS when it comes to feature requests.

I could write a script that collects it at the same frequency as sar,
but we have users that get upset when a process is running on a machine
since it could "slow them down".  Office politics mostly.  I liked sar
because that was already running in the background so they had nothing
to complain about.  What irks me - sar is collecting the information
that it does have out of the meminfo file, if not directly, indirectly.
:(