Adding active & inactive memory to mem plugin

closes #1213

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ time before a new metric is included by the plugin.
 - [#1197](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1197): Limit AWS GetMetricStatistics requests to 10 per second.
 - [#1278](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1278) & [#1288](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1288) & [#1295](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/pull/1295): RabbitMQ/Apache/InfluxDB inputs: made url(s) parameter optional by using reasonable input defaults if not specified
 - [#1296](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1296): Refactor of flush_jitter argument.
+- [#1213](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/issues/1213): Add inactive & active memory to mem plugin.
 
 ### Bugfixes
 

plugins/inputs/system/memory.go

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ func (s *MemStats) Gather(acc telegraf.Accumulator) error {
 		"free":              vm.Free,
 		"cached":            vm.Cached,
 		"buffered":          vm.Buffers,
+		"active":            vm.Active,
+		"inactive":          vm.Inactive,
 		"used_percent":      100 * float64(vm.Used) / float64(vm.Total),
 		"available_percent": 100 * float64(vm.Available) / float64(vm.Total),
 	}

plugins/inputs/system/memory_test.go

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ func TestMemStats(t *testing.T) {
 		Available: 7600,
 		Used:      5000,
 		Free:      1235,
-		// Active:      8134,
-		// Inactive:    1124,
+		Active:    8134,
+		Inactive:  1124,
 		// Buffers:     771,
 		// Cached:      4312,
 		// Wired:       134,
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ func TestMemStats(t *testing.T) {
 		"free":              uint64(1235),
 		"cached":            uint64(0),
 		"buffered":          uint64(0),
+		"active":            uint64(8134),
+		"inactive":          uint64(1124),
 	}
 	acc.AssertContainsTaggedFields(t, "mem", memfields, make(map[string]string))