[mythtv] hdtvrecorder: dynamic ringbuffers?

[Florin Andrei]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 16:41 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
> In message <41C99A1F.6000505 at BlueSkyTours.com>
>         John Patrick Poet <john at BlueSkyTours.com> wrote:
> 
> > Do you know how to detect the amount of physical RAM in the system?
> 
> On linux you do this:
> 
>   sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES) * sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE)

I guess you could always read /proc
However, i'm not sure how consistent it is between platforms, plus you
may have to do some ugly string parsing:

[florin at stantz ~]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       514640 kB
MemFree:         38656 kB
Buffers:         36640 kB
Cached:         223620 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         324192 kB
Inactive:       115736 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514640 kB
LowFree:         38656 kB
SwapTotal:     1228964 kB
SwapFree:      1228964 kB
Dirty:             184 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         240380 kB
Slab:            22880 kB
Committed_AS:   715372 kB
PageTables:       6708 kB
VmallocTotal:  3612664 kB
VmallocUsed:      6544 kB
VmallocChunk:  3605880 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

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Florin Andrei

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