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Octopus
Octopus

Reputation: 189

Get RAM system size

I would like to know how can I get the size of my RAM through C++ (on Windows 7).

Upvotes: 11

Views: 28815

Answers (5)

Andrew White
Andrew White

Reputation: 53496

You want to use the GlobalMemoryStatusEx which returns a MEMORYSTATUSEX. The field you want is called ullTotalPhys.

Upvotes: 4

Sarfaraz Nawaz
Sarfaraz Nawaz

Reputation: 361442

Use GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory to retrieve the amount of RAM that is physically installed on the computer.

(Note that this requires Windows Vista SP1 or later. The function is not available on earlier versions of the Windows operating system.)

The remarks on MSDN say:

The GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory function retrieves the amount of physically installed RAM from the computer's SMBIOS firmware tables. This can differ from the amount reported by the GlobalMemoryStatusEx function, which sets the ullTotalPhys member of the MEMORYSTATUSEX structure to the amount of physical memory that is available for the operating system to use. The amount of memory available to the operating system can be less than the amount of memory physically installed in the computer because the BIOS and some drivers may reserve memory as I/O regions for memory-mapped devices, making the memory unavailable to the operating system and applications.

The amount of physical memory retrieved by the GetPhysicallyInstalledSystemMemory function must be equal to or greater than the amount reported by the GlobalMemoryStatusEx function; if it is less, the SMBIOS data is malformed and the function fails with ERROR_INVALID_DATA. Malformed SMBIOS data may indicate a problem with the user's computer.

That means, you would also want to look at GlobalMemoryStatusEx.

Upvotes: 12

Octopus
Octopus

Reputation: 189

Okay, guys! I've found the solution by doing this like that [guru mode on]:

#define _WIN32_WINNT  0x0501 // I misunderstand that
#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
   MEMORYSTATUSEX statex;

   statex.dwLength = sizeof (statex); // I misunderstand that

   GlobalMemoryStatusEx (&statex);
   cout << "Physical RAM => " << (float)statex.ullTotalPhys/(1024*1024*1024)<< endl;

   system("PAUSE");
   return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

I had to define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501, but i don't know why [guru mode is off].

If somebody could explain me what it is doing and why it doesn't work without it.

One more thing, what is that:

statex.dwLength = sizeof (statex);

Upvotes: 7

Aram Paronikyan
Aram Paronikyan

Reputation: 11

The 0x501 is the WindowsXP version, i.e. the MEMORYSTATUSEX struct is not supported by some older Windows versions. Your windef.h probably points to a lower WINVER than 0x5XX.

Upvotes: 1

Naszta
Naszta

Reputation: 7744

On Windows:

typedef BOOL (WINAPI *PGMSE)(LPMEMORYSTATUSEX);
PGMSE pGMSE = (PGMSE) GetProcAddress( GetModuleHandle( TEXT( "kernel32.dll" ) ), TEXT( "GlobalMemoryStatusEx") );
if ( pGMSE != 0 )
{
    MEMORYSTATUSEX mi;
    memset( &mi, 0, sizeof(MEMORYSTATUSEX) );
    mi.dwLength = sizeof(MEMORYSTATUSEX);
    if ( pGMSE( &mi ) == TRUE )
        os << "RAM: " << mi.ullTotalPhys / 1048576 << "MB";
    else
        pGMSE = 0;
}
if ( pGMSE == 0 )
{
    MEMORYSTATUS mi;
    memset( &mi, 0, sizeof(MEMORYSTATUS) );
    mi.dwLength = sizeof(MEMORYSTATUS);
    GlobalMemoryStatus( &mi );
    os << "RAM: " << mi.dwTotalPhys / 1048576 << "MB";
}

On Linux:

Read /proc/meminfo.

Upvotes: 5

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