Shell commands to find available memory

[Bob Sneidar]

I get 26. HAH! My CPU is faster than yours!

Bob


On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> 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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