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Subject: Re: Amount of free memory available in system?
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> > Is there a simple sysctl or a command line utility I can use to
> > determine how much free memory is available in a system?
> > 
> > I've got an embedded application that has *very* limited memory, and I
> > was trying to figure out how much memory was available for the userland
> > applications.
> > 
> > 'top' has something, as well as 'vmstat'.  Unfortunately, because of the
> > limited amount of disk space available on this box, I don't have access
> > to either one of those.
> > 
> > Is there a sysctl I can use to determine how much free memory is
> > available on the box?
> 
> Why not look how top and vmstat calculate it and do that in your code.

I was hoping to get do 'sysctl foo.bar.bletch' to tell me information.


Nate

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