$top all you need and more On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Jonathan Schreiter <jonathanschreiter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone point me in the direction on a relatively > simple way to determine the amount of physical memory > and virtual memory available on a system at runtime? > I'd like to be able to determine each value > independently, not the sum of both (total available > memory). > > I'd like to differentiate between the two in a c > program (gcc 4) in x86_64 linux (although that > shouldn't matter). > > Memalloc works fine, but performance slows down if > large arrays allocate in the upper paging file memory. > I'd like to be able to split up calculations relative > to the available memory results returned. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Jonathan >
