Shell commands to find available memory

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:
 > On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >
 >> I could use "top -l1 -n0" to get just the overview stuff from which
 >>
 >> I can parse out the memory info, but it's not a very fast command to
 >> execute, taking more than a second to return the result to LiveCode.
 >
 > When I execute this directly from the shell the result is almost
 > instantaneous.

But how long does it take when you try it in the LiveCode Message Box:

put the millisecs into t; get shell("top -l1 -n0"); put the millisecs - 
t && it


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