Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ibmarc!drake
From: drake@ibmarc.uucp (Sam Drake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Memory usage on the RT.
Keywords: memory brk sbrk ulimit
Message-ID: <1064@ks.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 89 07:34:32 GMT
References: <1247@quintus.UUCP>
Sender: news@ibmarc.UUCP
Reply-To: drake@ibmarc.UUCP (Sam Drake)
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
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In article <1247@quintus.UUCP> mark@quintus.UUCP (Mark Spotswood) writes:
>Is there any way to find out how much swap space is actually left while running,
>so that I can set the break point to a more reasonable value and avoid being
>killed?

Look at the "monitor" program, shipped with IBM's X11 product as a sample.
Among other things, it will display a real-time graph of the amount of
page space available; presumably you can use the same technique in your
application.

Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center