Writing a program which uses single files to large to fit in the memory of normal desktops or laptops, I thought it would be nice to dispatch on the available memory relative to some expected required memory. In case the available memory is not enough to fit the data and overhead, the function shoul…

Are you aware of the Base.Sys.free_memory function? If I’m understanding what you’re trying to do that might be able to give you the information you need without needing to run a pipeline of external programs.

A clever way to find the available memory the host currently has free/available?

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met-j March 27, 2020, 8:55pm 4

Thanks. I did not know about it.
Here a previous discussion, and the docs.

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A clever way to find the available memory the host currently has free/available?

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