Re: Q: How to get physical memory size from user space without proc

[Michael Rothwell]

pyhsmem = `free | grep Mem | tr -s "/ / /" | cut -f2 -d" "`

On 03 Mar 2001 13:37:42 -0500, Denis Perchine wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> actually the question is in subj.
> Problem is that there is a program which needs to know physical memory
> size. This information is used to justify memory consumption as after some
> swapping performance is drops dramatically, and it is better to finish.
> 
> I know that this is not the best idea, but it is assumed that this program
> is the only one running on the machine.
> 
> I do not want to use proc as some people can just do not mount it.
> 
> Any comments, suggestions?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Denis Perchine.
> 
> 
> 
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