[Lazarus] GlobalMemoryStatus is Windows only, how to get installed RAM on Linux ?

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 2017-08-16 14:09, Michael Van Canneyt via Lazarus wrote:
> Your best options is most likely to read /proc/meminfo and parse the result.
> It contains a wealth of information.

Just a side note:

   /proc/meminfo is specific to Linux, and doesn't apply to other
   Unix-like operating systems like Solaris, FreeBSD etc.

For example, under FreeBSD you can execute the following command and 
read the results back.

   $ /sbin/sysctl hw.physmem
   hw.physmem: 34,272,751,616

..and similar for other hardware under FreeBSD:

   $ /sbin/sysctl hw.model
   hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz

Also worthy noting that the sysctl command can be executed without root 
access, even though it lives in the 'sbin' directory. This is super handy.


Landmesser John, if you look in the OnGuard project in the 
source/onguard.pas unit, there is code for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD 
(latter is still limited info) that extracts such information. You are 
welcome to copy some of that code as you need it.

The OnGuard Git repository can be found in the link below, and the web 
interface also has a "download zip" option.

   https://github.com/graemeg/onguard

Regards,
   Graeme

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