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From: | Ludvig Larsson <ludvig AT club-internet DOT fr> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: free RAM available |
Date: | Tue, 23 Feb 1999 02:36:14 +0100 |
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Apester000 AT aol DOT com wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >How can I get the free RAM available ? > > An easy (while not entirely accurate way) is just to make a little loop > allocating memory until malloc failes. i.e.: I think the DPMI will just continue to allocate virtual memory(on disc) until there are no more which will provide an answer containing a total of your free memorysize and your discs free memory size. I guess that it also might trouble an OS which depends on virtual memory(ex Win95 etc..) Ludvig Larsson
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