Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory() - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

2014-02-27 Thread Andrew Kluthe
He's referring to system RAM here. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Gabriel, if you are saving to the boot volume and getting dow to 100MB, > this is a very serious matter. You should *never* go below 10 gigs on a > modern boot driveIf the volume is being used for a swap fil

Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory() - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

2014-02-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
Gabriel, if you are saving to the boot volume and getting dow to 100MB, this is a very serious matter. You should *never* go below 10 gigs on a modern boot driveIf the volume is being used for a swap file, it’s not as serious but will affect performance. Just a heads up. Bob On Feb 26, 2014,

Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory()

2014-02-26 Thread Thierry Douez
Gabriel, >> > I am working on a program where I need to know the amount of >> > available memory. You can shell this: sysctl - a | grep mem or sysctl hw.usermem or HTH, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker o

Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory()

2014-02-26 Thread Gabriel Johnson
Thanks for the responses. Yes, we are saving a 100+ MB data file to disk, and when the free memory gets to be under 100 MB, saving to a standard hard drive (not SSD) sometimes ends up taking a very long time (in Mac OS X), making it appear to the user that the program has locked up. We have contemp

Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory()

2014-02-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Gabriel- Thursday, February 20, 2014, 11:07:59 AM, you wrote: > Hey All, > I am working on a program where I need to know the amount of available > memory. > I'm running on OS X and hasMemory() appears to return true/false for the > same values regardless changes to free/available memory. Is th

Re: Finding available memory without shell, how to use hasMemory()

2014-02-20 Thread Richmond
On 20/02/14 21:07, Gabriel Johnson wrote: Hey All, I am working on a program where I need to know the amount of available memory. I'm running on OS X and hasMemory() appears to return true/false for the same values regardless changes to free/available memory. Is there some trick to getting hasM