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From: hitt@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: determining size of physical memory
Summary: want system call or user program to determine size of core
Keywords: core, physical memory, size of core
Message-ID: <1990Dec27.202715.27688@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 27 Dec 90 20:27:15 GMT
Sender: hitt@neon.stanford.edu
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Is there a standard UNIX program or system call that determines
the size of the physical memory of the machine on which it is
running?

What manual page should i be looking at?

I'd like to be able to do this on Ultrix, SunOS, and the NeXT OS,
and possibly HP-UX.

dan