api function for requesting the amount of free memory needed

Chris January kde-cygwin@mail.kde.org
Fri, 7 Feb 2003 09:41:00 -0000


> Hi all,
> 
> currently I'm writing a little helper tool (fillmem), which 
> clears the windows
> file cache to emulate a reboot. This helps in inspecting the loading time
> problems.
> 
> One open issue with this tool is to get the available free 
> virtual memory. It
> would be nice if someone could give me a hint, which function 
> could be used.
> 
> See 
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/kde-cygwin/tools/fi
llmem/ for
further informations.

See BOOL GlobalMemoryStatusEx(
  LPMEMORYSTATUSEX lpBuffer
);

Chris