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From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Reading physical memory in a cross-platform way
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On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > 1.  Is there a variable / function which contains the size of memory
> > across all platforms that I am missing?
>
> sysctl -A | grep -i mem

Er, I guess I should explain more.  This is code inside the kernel in
various places.  I'm just trying to find a quick way to have the number of
bytes of physical memory available on all platforms without any
conversions necessary.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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