Get OS-level system information

Question

I\'m currently building a Java app that could end up being run on many different platforms, but primarily variants of Solaris, Linux and Windows.

Has anyone been abl

Answer 1

To get the System Load average of 1 minute, 5 minutes and 15 minutes inside the java code, you can do this by executing the command cat /proc/loadavg using and interpreting it as below:

    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(runtime.exec("cat /proc/loadavg").getInputStream()));

    String avgLine = br.readLine();
    System.out.println(avgLine);
    List avgLineList = Arrays.asList(avgLine.split("\\s+"));
    System.out.println(avgLineList);
    System.out.println("Average load 1 minute : " + avgLineList.get(0));
    System.out.println("Average load 5 minutes : " + avgLineList.get(1));
    System.out.println("Average load 15 minutes : " + avgLineList.get(2));

And to get the physical system memory by executing the command free -m and then interpreting it as below:

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(runtime.exec("free -m").getInputStream()));

String line;
String memLine = "";
int index = 0;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
  if (index == 1) {
    memLine = line;
  }
  index++;
}
//                  total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
//    Mem:          15933        3153        9683         310        3097       12148
//    Swap:          3814           0        3814

List memInfoList = Arrays.asList(memLine.split("\\s+"));
int totalSystemMemory = Integer.parseInt(memInfoList.get(1));
int totalSystemUsedMemory = Integer.parseInt(memInfoList.get(2));
int totalSystemFreeMemory = Integer.parseInt(memInfoList.get(3));

System.out.println("Total system memory in mb: " + totalSystemMemory);
System.out.println("Total system used memory in mb: " + totalSystemUsedMemory);
System.out.println("Total system free memory in mb: "   + totalSystemFreeMemory);