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From: dwc@homxc.UUCP (Malaclypse the Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Determining system memory
Message-ID: <1781@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 88 09:51:47 GMT
References: <248@lxn.UUCP>
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In article <248@lxn.UUCP>, chris@lxn.UUCP (Christopher D. Orr) writes:
> 
> 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 :-).
> 
i believe there is a system variable called physmem (or something
like that).  so all you have to do is to find the address of the
variable, open /dev/mem (or kmem, i'm never sure which) and read
that value (ala ps, sysdef, etc.)

danny chen
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