[Mono-dev] Obtain the available memory

[Paolo Molaro]

On 08/25/05 Joannes Vermorel wrote:
> I have seen that the PerformanceCounter class is yet unimplemented in mono,
> yet, I would like to emulate with mono, the following 
> 
> <code>
> PerformanceCounter counter =
> 	new PerformanceCounter("Memory", "Available Bytes");
> </code>
> 
> There is the possibility to resort to command-line and to parse the output
> of the "top -b" command, but I feel that this option is very poor because
> the "top" output is not standardised at all (also this solution may yield
> very poor performance).

While PerformanceCounter is not implemented, on Linux you can read the
/proc/meminfo file:
~$ cat /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:      1035740 kB
[...]

As for PerformanceCounter: as I suggested in the past, someone running
windows should collect the names, types, and meanings of the counters
that we should make available and write them all in one place.
When we'll have that doc, we'll implement the support in mono.

lupus

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