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> I'm working on a port I maintain and the code has drastically changed.
> Everything is going we except that the program gives warnings that there
> isn't enough free memory on the system to perform certain actions.
> The program uses Linux call to /proc/meminfo to get this information.

this is just a nonsense. the only thing program should check is data size 
limit.

man getrlimit.

RLIMIT_DATA is fine.


unices (including linux) have virtual memory. providing enough total VM is 
a job for sysadmin.

checking available memory by one program doesn't make much sense, as other 
programs are running in the same time.