Date:	Thu, 23 Nov 1995 07:42:22 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Eric NICOLAS <nicolas AT chouette DOT saclay DOT cea DOT fr>
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Free Memory Indicators

On 22 Nov 1995, Eric NICOLAS wrote:

> I would like to know how one can get from the system the amount
> of free physical memory (RAM), free swap space memory, used
> physical memory, and used swap sapce memory, in order to build
> a Memory Usage Indicator window in my graphical system (SWORD).

There are a few library functions which report these:

	_go32_dpmi_remaining_physical_memory
	_go32_dpmi_remaining_virtual_memory
	_go32_dpmi_get_free_memory_information

The only caveat is that they all report as free the memory that has not
yet been allocated for the malloc() pool of free memory; memory that has
been allocated, then freed is not counted in the amount they report.  See
the DJGPP FAQ (faq102.zip from the same place you get DJGPP), section
15.2. 

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