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Subject: Re: available memory

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 09:08:41 10/05/01

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On October 05, 2001 at 07:13:11, James Swafford wrote:

>On October 04, 2001 at 23:23:22, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>>On October 04, 2001 at 13:51:17, James Swafford wrote:
>>
>>>On October 04, 2001 at 13:15:51, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 04, 2001 at 08:47:44, JW de Kort wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi friends,
>>>>>
>>>>>just a simple question. I want my hashtable to be as big as possible but in
>>>>>order to decide the size i need to know how much physical memory is still
>>>>>available. The problem is however that i do not know which instruction i should
>>>>>use to get the size of the available memory. Iám using Visual C++ 4.2. Can
>>>>>anybody help me?
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>>Jan Willem
>>>>
>>>>Hi Jan
>>>>The available physical memory can be checked with the windows program
>>>>"C:\WINDOWS\SYSMON.EXE". There are of course also other tools for the same
>>>>purpose.
>>>>Regards
>>>>Kurt
>>>
>>>I think he's asking for a C or C++ instruction that he can use
>>>in code...
>>>
>>>(Sorry, I don't know how to do that, or if you can do that.)
>>>
>>>--
>>>James
>>
>>I don't know how to do it myself, but I'm sure it's in the API somewhere.  After
>>all, sysmon is doing it. :-)
>>
>>Dave
>
>Does the fact that sysmon is doing it necessarily mean it's in
>the API?  (I read in Scott's post how to do it...)
>
>That may sound like a retarded question, but I'm serious...
>
>--
>James

Well, I don't think sysmon is probing hardware directly.  That must mean the OS
is checking this stuff on its behalf.

Dave



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