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.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
