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From: robertt@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: GetFreeSpace in Enhanced Mode
Message-ID: <13790003@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 17:17:16 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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A quick question for anybody that knows:

Is there anyway to find out how much real memory (RAM) is available in
enhanced mode vs. how big the swapfile is?  I'm trying to allocate really
big blocks of memory (> 2 meg), but it needs to be in RAM, not on disk.
If I use GetFreeSpace to determine what I can allocate, I can't tell the
difference between a system with 16M RAM/2M Swapfile and 2M RAM/16M Swapfile.
For the first, I'd allocate a much bigger block of memory than for the
second.

Essentially, I'm looking for the following two pieces of information:
1) Amount of physical RAM installed
2) Size of the current Swapfile.

Windows obviously knows this info - does anybody know how I can get it?

thanks -

bob taylor
HP Vancouver