Re: Available RAM in Win32?

Have you looked at parsing the output of winmsd? It should be available on all your Win32 platforms, and may give you more consistent results. In addition, you wouldn't have to worry about installing modules on every machine.

Another point, winmsd can (at least on Win2k) check a different machine -- so it's conceivable that you could write your script to go out and check all these other machines from one central location. A big plus in my book.

Cheers,
Shendal

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RE: Re: Available RAM in Win32? by turnstep (Parson) on Aug 30, 2000 at 18:54 UTC
> It should be available on all your Win32 platforms WINMSD is only on WinNT or later machines, previously you have to look for MSD, which may or may not be there, so this is probably not a good route. I would suggest using GlobalMemoryStatus (as someone has already pointed out below). Some pages that might help: http://www.winehq.com/WineAPI/GlobalMemoryStatus.html http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/winbase/memman_090z.htm http://www.vb-world.net/api/tip112.html http://www.chami.com/tips/delphi/122496D.html Warning: The M$ link has the best information, but is also the most likely to become a bad link as they rearrange their directory structure/file naming convention yet again. :)	[reply]

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RE: Re: Available RAM in Win32?
by turnstep (Parson) on Aug 30, 2000 at 18:54 UTC

> It should be available on all your Win32 platforms

WINMSD is only on WinNT or later machines, previously you have to look for MSD, which may or may not be there, so this is probably not a good route. I would suggest using GlobalMemoryStatus (as someone has already pointed out below). Some pages that might help:

Warning: The M$ link has the best information, but is also the most likely to become a bad link as they rearrange their directory structure/file naming convention yet again. :)

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