Determining system memory

Eddie Wyatt edw at IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU
Mon Apr 4 10:02:44 AEST 1988


    memory size via sbrk deleted.

> 	Now you know how much memory you have for the current process, but
> do you have to sbrk() it back if you are going to use malloc() ???

   Consider this as an independent facility at the shell level.
It's useful for things like finding out if the current machine that you
are running on has enough memory to load your lisp job and maintain it. 


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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw at ius1.cs.cmu.edu



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