Shell commands to find available memory

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Tue Aug 14 14:30:48 EDT 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 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

36 milliseconds for

put the millisecs into t; get shell("sysctl -a | grep mem"); put the
millisecs - t && it


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