Re: Best way to check memory usage?

[Peter Scott]

At 09:15 PM 5/5/2001 +0200, Merritt Krakowitzer wrote:
>I want to write a program to check my systems memory but i have no idea 
>how to check my free memory with perl, best i can think of is to get the 
>data from "top" , but that isnt ideal in my situation. some1 please point 
>me in the write direction

Do a long ps listing on $$ and look for the SZ column.