> Hi Hello, > > Would somebody be kind enough to give me some pointers on the > availability of some linux kernel call that I can use to get the > amount of physical memory available on the system ? You can use the syscall info, only need to use a struct sysinfo and your field is freeram. Other way is using the proc interface `cat /proc/meminfo` with meminfo_read_proc(). -- Alejandro Sánchez Acosta <asanchez@gnu.org> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/