Timeline for How to find out the (current) free memory on the system?
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| Mar 16, 2012 at 0:06 | comment | added | Alexey Popkov | @WReach There was a report (see Emmanuel Bourg's comment here) that this method does not allow to "see" more than 2 Gb of physical memory on Windows XP (probably it is true only for 32bit systems and the reason is a limitation of Java itself). | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 20:01 | comment | added | WReach | @celtschk I added InstallJava[] to the response for good measure. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 20:01 | history | edited | WReach | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added `InstallJava[]` for good measure |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 17:22 | comment | added | celtschk | One additional point I noticed now: To execute it directly on the kernel (i.e. without the notebook interface) one additionally has to execute InstallJava[] before using LoadJavaClass. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 17:14 | comment | added | celtschk | Actually I hadn't carefully read your solution previously; now I recognized that the grid is only your addition for demonstration, and I can get the desired values directly. Which is even better. :-) | |
| Jan 22, 2012 at 20:58 | comment | added | celtschk | I've just checked on Linux, it works there as well. Moreover, the output is a Grid instead of simply a string, thus parsing isn't necessary either. I've changed the accepted answer to yours. | |
| Jan 22, 2012 at 20:54 | vote | accept | celtschk | ||
| Jan 22, 2012 at 16:31 | comment | added | WReach | @Mr.Wizard Windows 7 is a really just a marketing label slapped on a Vista release. It would seem that the name change happened too late to change it in the deepest parts of the OS. "amd64" is the name given to the original 64-bit instructions added to the x86 architecture. The name has stuck, although the term "x86-64" is sometimes used as a vendor-neutral term. It so happens that this workstation has an Intel CPU, not an AMD one, but the historical term is used nonetheless. | |
| Jan 22, 2012 at 7:41 | comment | added | Mr.Wizard | Do you know why this shows Windows Vista and amd64? | |
| Jan 21, 2012 at 20:28 | comment | added | WReach | @acl Thanks for checking OS X. As for the negative work, everybody complains about the heat death of the universe but few do anything about it ;) | |
| Jan 21, 2012 at 20:18 | comment | added | acl | it works fine on OS X (your system is not only not being loaded, but in fact actively doing negative work???) | |
| Jan 21, 2012 at 20:02 | history | answered | WReach | CC BY-SA 3.0 |