porting an app that checks /proc/meminfo

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:56:57PM -0200, Rainer Alves wrote:
> Fernan Aguero wrote:
> >The program builds fine, but because it uses /proc/meminfo
> >to check for available memory, when you run it, it will
> >complain about the lack of /proc/meminfo and won't let you
> >do anything. 
> >
> ...
> >How does one gets the values of i) memory used by the
> >program/process and ii) amount of RAM available in the
> >computer without using /proc/meminfo in FreeBSD? 
> 
> Take a loot at sysutils/muse, which uses /dev/mem to gather this info:

Please don't do this.  Really!  There's no point in gratuitously
groveling around in the kernel's live memory image to get data you have
access to via unprivileged calls.

-- Brooks

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