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Top Forums Programming Shelling Out to Give a System Command Drains Free Memory Post 302553722 by Corona688 on Thursday 8th of September 2011 11:08:14 AM
Old 09-08-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by BrandonShw
I took a look with "free -m" and the situation looked entirely different.
Naturally it would, after the fact... But it reports the same information. You'll have to add free and cache.
 

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array wincache_ucache_meminfo (void ) DESCRIPTION
Retrieves information about memory usage by user cache. RETURN VALUES
Array of meta data about user cache memory usage or FALSE on failure The array returned by this function contains the following elements: o memory_total - amount of memory in bytes allocated for the user cache o memory_free - amount of free memory in bytes available for the user cache o num_used_blks - number of memory blocks used by the user cache o num_free_blks - number of free memory blocks available for the user cache o memory_overhead - amount of memory in bytes used for the user cache internal structures EXAMPLES
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