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From: edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Determining system memory
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Date: 31 Mar 88 13:42:47 GMT
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 > I have been trying to find a nice, clean way to determine system
 > memory under SYS V 2.2.  I have come up with two solutions to this
 > problem.  However, there must be a cleaner/faster way :-).
 > 
	....

 > Any other solutions are welcome (especially those that are faster :-)

If what you are really interested in is the memory currently available
to a given process I suggest using sbrk.  sbrk memory
in fix block sizes until sbrk fails.
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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu