On Oct 2, 10:08 pm, Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > On 2010-10-02, Sandy <dksre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I want to find how much free memory (RAM) is available in my system > > using python. > > The question is essentially incoherent on modern systems. You'd have to > define terms. Consider that on a given system, it's quite possible that > gigabytes of space are being used to cache disk buffers. Some of those > could be freed as soon as they get written; some could be freed simply by > dropping them, since they're just a read cache. There may be data which > have been paged out, and will be paged back in as soon as possible -- meaning > that freeing up space wouldn't actually increase the number of available > pages of memory for long. > > So basically, the question isn't all that well defined. You can get all > sorts of numbers. They may or may not mean anything. > > -s > -- > Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / > usenet-nos...@seebs.nethttp://www.seebs.net/log/<-- lawsuits, religion, and > funny pictureshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get > educated! > I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions.
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