NAME¶

meminfolog - log the meminfo with timestamp

SYNOPSIS¶

meminfolog [ logfile ]

DESCRIPTION¶

meminfolog logs the meminfo with timestamp. Basically the script puts the output of "date +%F %T" in front of each line for the output of "cat /proc/meminfo".

EXAMPLES¶

To run meminfolog every 10 minutes, the crontab entry could look like this:

-01-56/10 * * * * root /usr/sbin/meminfolog /var/log/meminfo.log

To rotate and compress the log from time to time, the logrotate entry could look like this:

/var/log/meminfo.log {
compress
dateext
maxage 365
rotate 99
size +2M
notifempty
missingok
copytruncate
}

EXIT STATUS¶

0 Successful program execution.
>0 Usage, syntax or execution errors.

FILES¶

/usr/sbin/meminfolog

the script itself.

/var/log/meminfo.log

the default logfile.

/etc/cron.d/ClusterTools2

the cron entry.

/etc/logrotate.d/ClusterTools2

the logrotate entry.

BUGS¶

Feedback is welcome, please mail to feedback@suse.com

SEE ALSO¶

proc(5), vmstat(8), crontab(5), logrotate(8), ClusterTools2(7)

COPYRIGHT¶

(c) 2011-2019 L.Pinne, Germany.
meminfolog comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details see the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html