Shell commands to find available memory

[Andre Garzia]

Richard,

Maybe one of the keys output from:

sysctl -a | grep mem

will help you.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
> Finding available memory on Linux is easy using the shell command "free".
>
> But "free" isn't available on OS X, and although "alloc" is listed as an equivalent at some sites it isn't available on any of the Macs I have here.
>
> 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.
>
> On Windows there's the "mem" command, but that only returns memory available for the CLI itself, not for the whole system.
>
> Anyone here know a fast way to get available memory on OS X and Windows on all versions of those OSes supported by LiveCode?
>
> TIA -
>
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