Getting amount of total physical memory

[Michał Januszczyk]

Is there any _managed_ way of getting total physical
memory installed in the machine

Thanks in advanc
Michał Januszczyk

[Eric Cherng]

Re: Getting amount of total physical memory

Michal,

You can retrieve the amount of physical memory on the computer by using WMI.
A quick google search returned this page:

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/24/123208.aspx

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> Is there any _managed_ way of getting total physical
> memory installed in the machine ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Michal Januszczyk[/color]

[Michał Januszczyk]

Re: Getting amount of total physical memory


----- Eric Cherng wrote: ----

Michal

You can retrieve the amount of physical memory on the computer by using WMI
A quick google search returned this page

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/24/123208.asp

Thank You very much. This works fine on my machine, however I ran this on VMWare with 140 MB of memor
and this did not return valid numbers. Memory was returned twice (the program uses internally a loop):
it showed 50 MB and 33 MB, when it should return ony one number (140MB).
XP installed on the virtual machine (task manager, My Computer Properties,...) is aware of 140MB
Later I increased memory for VMachine to 240 MB, and then WMI returned 67MB (also twice

I hope that this is related to VMWare and all physicall machines would behave normally.

Thank You
Michal