[python-win32] How to calc amount of avail RAM in a process ?

geoff imageguy1206 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 03:57:55 CET 2009


>
> I would caution you not to draw any conclusions based on the physical
> numbers.  You WANT your system to be using all of its physical memory.
> Unused physical memory is just wasted money.  The operating system will
> page things in and out as needed, on a demand basis, to make sure that
> pages you are really USING stay in memory.  The other pages will be used
> by DLLs, other processes, and disk caching.  Also remember that, if the
> page file gets low, the system will allocate more.
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.


Thanks for your help.

g.


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