> > Is amount of ram available (portably) to configure?
> > So configure could decide to use --low-memory by itself? Allowing
> > overrides, naturally.
> >
> > Leif
> >
>
> There is actually a method to portably guess how much RAM your have available
> from configure -- just write a small C program that will keep malloc()-ing until
> it gets an error, but I do not think it is worth the effort.
>
> --
> Sasha Pachev
How much ram you have and how much ram+swap you have before you hit your
limit is quite different. :)
# sysctl hw.physmem
hw.physmem: 400883712
This will return the amount of ram you have minus your kernel size, though.
Perhaps helpful if you really want to do this. :)
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