[android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-11 Thread Indicator Veritatis
What is 'nebulous' about it? By free memory, he most likely means the amount of memory not yet allocated to any process, available (to user, not system processes) on the heap. Now true, the whole purpose of a garbage collector is that it can change that value on the fly by freeing up memory as it

Re: [android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Murphy
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Indicator Veritatis mej1...@yahoo.com wrote: What is 'nebulous' about it? By free memory, he most likely means the amount of memory not yet allocated to any process, available (to user, not system processes) on the heap. Android caches processes that are not

Re: [android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-11 Thread Frank Weiss
The question isn't so simple, eh? The total ram available to the device appears to be a fairly objective hardware question. For the Motorola/Verizon Droid it's 256MB. But the OP seems to be looking for some other answer. Perhaps restate it a different way? -- You received this message because

[android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathan
I can get the amount free from MemoryInfo - but I want to know the percentage free - so, for example, if running on the Droid I want to know that there is 256MB installed, so that if MemoryInfo reports 128MB free, it's 50%, while on an EVO with 512MB, 128MB free is 25%. If you take a look at the

Re: [android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-11 Thread Frank Weiss
I meant in windows xp device manager On Aug 11, 2010 9:51 PM, Jonathan j.trachtenb...@gmail.com wrote: I can get the amount free from MemoryInfo - but I want to know the percentage free - so, for example, if running on the Droid I want to know that there is 256MB installed, so that if MemoryInfo

[android-developers] Re: A simple question - I hope

2010-08-10 Thread niko20
Hi, No, you should be able to access /proc/meminfo even from userland just fine. It would be the best way to do it. Yesterday I was browsing the source for Android's Running Services app and this is what it does (gets meminfo and adds free + cached together to get free mem, total mem it does