On Fri Mar 31, 2000 at 09:52:55AM -0500, j_clifton@aerosimulation.com wrote:
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> Attached is a trivial(stupid?) program I wrote to test available memory for a
> military aircraft simulator. I had to abandon it because it causes
> BadThingsToHappen (TM) if you run multiple copies to exhaust memory. I tried it
> under 2.2.12 (RedHat 6.1) yesterday and it killed Telnet and locked up the
> console. It also caused havoc on 2.0.36.
> Now I just use /proc/<pid>/maps to get the data required.
>
Why don't you use sysinfo(2) to get the amount of free memory?
-Erik
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