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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Concept of free –m command in Linux Post 302822591 by RHCE on Tuesday 18th of June 2013 01:32:31 AM
Old 06-18-2013
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Originally Posted by sixstrings
I had a query in this, what if the laptop had 8 GB memory instead of 4 GB, would Linux still attempt to utilize all the memory.

I hope, my query is clear that if the available memory is a very large number, would Linux still attempt to utilize all the memory.
 

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wsreg_query_create(3WSREG)			    Product Install Registry Library Functions				wsreg_query_create(3WSREG)

NAME
wsreg_query_create, wsreg_query_free - create a new query SYNOPSIS
cc [flag ...] file ...-lwsreg [library ...] #include <wsreg.h> Wsreg_query *wsreg_query_create(void); void wsreg_query_free(Wsreg_query *query); DESCRIPTION
The wsreg_query_create() function allocates a new query that can retrieve components from the product install registry. The wsreg_query_free() function releases the memory associated with the query specified by query. RETURN VALUES
The wsreg_query_create() function returns a pointer to the newly allocated query. The resulting query is completely empty and must be filled in to describe the desired component. USAGE
The query identifies fields used to search for a specific component in the product install registry. The query must be configured and then passed to the wsreg_get(3WSREG) function to perform the registry query. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
wsreg_get(3WSREG), wsreg_initialize(3WSREG), wsreg_query_set_id(3WSREG), wsreg_query_set_instance(3WSREG), wsreg_query_set_loca- tion(3WSREG), wsreg_query_set_unique_name(3WSREG), wsreg_query_set_version(3WSREG), wsreg_unregister(3WSREG), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 22 Sep 2000 wsreg_query_create(3WSREG)
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