porting an app that checks /proc/meminfo

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

Fernan Aguero wrote:
> How does one gets the values of
> i) memory used by the program/process and

As others have already told you: getrusage(2)

> ii) amount of RAM available in the computer without using
> /proc/meminfo in FreeBSD?

What for? It is a rather useless value anyway. Either your malloc(3)
calls succeed or not. If they do depends not only on RAM, but on the VM,
Swap, and limits(1) (please correct me, if I'm wrong).

So the question is, what's the value used for in his program?

Ulrich Spoerlein
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