Re: Different result reading meminfo from shell and Perl

in reply to Different result reading meminfo from shell and Perl

Erm, are you confused that the memory free is changing when you're running different commands or what? It's not surprising that there's less memory in use when there's a single perl process running vs having two separate processes going from the shell.

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Re^2: Different result reading meminfo from shell and Perl by bofh_of_oz (Hermit) on Jun 09, 2005 at 13:04 UTC
Yeah, shoud've thought about it... I guess it was due to the lack of caffeine in the system... Anyways, it does make sense now, and the code works - thanks for the explanation! -------------------------------- An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it...	[reply]

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