He's referring to system RAM here.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>wrote: > Gabriel, if you are saving to the boot volume and getting dow to 100MB, > this is a very serious matter. You should *never* go below 10 gigs on a > modern boot driveIf the volume is being used for a swap file, it's not as > serious but will affect performance. Just a heads up. > > Bob > > > On Feb 26, 2014, at 11:21 , Gabriel Johnson <gwj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks for the responses. Yes, we are saving a 100+ MB data file to disk, > > and when the free memory gets to be under 100 MB, saving to a standard > hard > > drive (not SSD) sometimes ends up taking a very long time (in Mac OS X), > > making it appear to the user that the program has locked up. We have > > contemplated going about this a different way, but the quickest fix for > us > > at the moment is to catch low memory situations. > > > > Mark: Yes, we need to know the amount of free ram (without counting the > > swap/inactive memory). > > > > > > Gabe Johnson > > gwj...@gmail.com > > 603-978-9881 > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> > wrote: > > > >> Gabriel- > >> > >> Thursday, February 20, 2014, 11:07:59 AM, you wrote: > >> > >>> Hey All, > >> > >>> I am working on a program where I need to know the amount of available > >>> memory. > >> > >>> I'm running on OS X and hasMemory() appears to return true/false for > the > >>> same values regardless changes to free/available memory. Is there some > >>> trick to getting hasMemory() to correspond with the actual available > >>> memory? Is this possibly something that is being addressed in newer > >>> versions of LiveCode? > >> > >> Ah, the curse of modern operating systems... > >> > >> What the hasMemory() function does is allocate and then free the > >> specified amount of memory, and then returns a boolean telling whether > >> it was successful. However, before doing that, it casts the desired > >> amount as a uint4, which limits the amount to 2147483647. If you're > >> trying to see if more than 2G of memory is available, that won't help. > >> And because modern operating systems will very happily exchange chunks > >> of memory out to swap files when necessary, it's unlikely that you'll > >> see the malloc fail, and thus you should see a "true" return value. > >> > >> Are you doing something where you really need to see the actual free > >> ram without the swap/inactive memory? The "available" term here is a > >> bit ambiguous, and depends on your needs. > >> > >> -- > >> -Mark Wieder > >> ahsoftw...@gmail.com > >> > >> This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the > National > >> Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not > >> consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any > >> related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, > >> disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received > >> this communication in error, please delete it immediately. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
