Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:44:46 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... > It's NOT a dumb question. Microsoft has many, many "hidden" calls into Windows. This is a major complaint of competitors -- Microsoft shares these hidden calls with its own Office engineers, but not with those of competitors, thereby allowing MS-Office to perform better. Anyway, the function to check available memory could very well be one such hidden call, and in that sense it's not officially in the API.
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