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SYSINFO(2)		   Linux Programmer's Manual		    SYSINFO(2)

NAME
       sysinfo - returns information on overall system statistics

SYNOPSIS
       #include <sys/sysinfo.h>

       int sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);

DESCRIPTION
       Until Linux 2.3.16, sysinfo() used to return information in the follow‐
       ing structure:

	   struct sysinfo {
	       long uptime;		/* Seconds since boot */
	       unsigned long loads[3];	/* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
	       unsigned long totalram;	/* Total usable main memory size */
	       unsigned long freeram;	/* Available memory size */
	       unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
	       unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
	       unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
	       unsigned long freeswap;	/* swap space still available */
	       unsigned short procs;	/* Number of current processes */
	       char _f[22];		/* Pads structure to 64 bytes */
	   };

       and the sizes were given in bytes.

       Since Linux 2.3.23 (i386), 2.3.48 (all architectures) the structure is:

	   struct sysinfo {
	       long uptime;		/* Seconds since boot */
	       unsigned long loads[3];	/* 1, 5, and 15 minute load averages */
	       unsigned long totalram;	/* Total usable main memory size */
	       unsigned long freeram;	/* Available memory size */
	       unsigned long sharedram; /* Amount of shared memory */
	       unsigned long bufferram; /* Memory used by buffers */
	       unsigned long totalswap; /* Total swap space size */
	       unsigned long freeswap;	/* swap space still available */
	       unsigned short procs;	/* Number of current processes */
	       unsigned long totalhigh; /* Total high memory size */
	       unsigned long freehigh;	/* Available high memory size */
	       unsigned int mem_unit;	/* Memory unit size in bytes */
	       char _f[20-2*sizeof(long)-sizeof(int)]; /* Padding for libc5 */
	   };

       and the sizes are given as multiples of mem_unit bytes.

       sysinfo() provides a simple way of getting overall  system  statistics.
       This is more portable than reading /dev/kmem.

RETURN VALUE
       On  success,  zero is returned.	On error, -1 is returned, and errno is
       set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EFAULT pointer to struct sysinfo is invalid

CONFORMING TO
       This function is Linux-specific, and should not	be  used  in  programs
       intended to be portable.

       The  Linux  kernel  has	a sysinfo() system call since 0.98.pl6.	 Linux
       libc contains a sysinfo() routine since 5.3.5, and glibc has one	 since
       1.90.

SEE ALSO
       proc(5)

COLOPHON
       This  page  is  part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux				  2007-11-15			    SYSINFO(2)

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