From:	sparhawk AT eunet DOT at (Gerhard Gruber)
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Subject:	Re: Remaining memory under OS/2 question
Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:23:55 GMT
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From: Gruber Gerhard
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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 01:14:05 GMT:

>That means there is no way to determine the remaining physical memory.
>But is there a way to find the amount of used memory then? That was
>actually a real  purpose of checking remaining memory. I was looking
>that  the remaining memory didn't go too low. If it did it meant I had
>memory leaks somewhere.

And how would you know that the shifting remaining memory is due to your
program and from others? In a multitasking environment you could get different
results each time you check how much memory is available so this is not a good
approach to check for memory leaks.
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   Gerhard

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