Why would you check any of this in kernel. You have access to all the information to do this wthout. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:23, derleader __ <<a href="mailto:derleader@abv.bg">derleader@abv.bg</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div> Hi, I'm developing C plugin for Edubuntu which will be installed as kernel module. The problem is how to collect the data about: <ul><li>CPU Check – Utilization, Model, Number of Cores </li><li>RAM Check – Total Memory, Free Memory, Memory Load </li><li>HDD Check – Number of physical HDDs, Number of logical partitions, Total space, Free space </li><li>Running processes – Total number of processes </li><li>Logs – system logs such as error logs </li><li>System uptime </li><li>Users logged in and last login – total list of users </li><li>Total network connections </li><li>Check hardware parts model and number</li></ul>The kernel module will check the status of the OS every 5 minutes. What is the most efficient way to collect these data? Regards Peter </div> -- edubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel</a> </blockquote></div> -- Stefan Nuxoll <<a href="mailto:stefan@nuxoll.eu.org">stefan@nuxoll.eu.org</a>>