Windows API Guide - Reference - Volume 1: Version 3.0 For the MS-DOS and PC-DOS Operating Systems

Type MEMORYSTATUSEX dwLength As Long dwMemoryLoad As Long ullTotalPhys As ULARGE_INTEGER ullAvailPhys As ULARGE_INTEGER ullTotalPageFile As ULARGE_INTEGER ullAvailPageFile As ULARGE_INTEGER ullTotalVirtual As ULARGE_INTEGER ullAvailVirtual As ULARGE_INTEGER ullAvailExtendedVirtual As ULARGE_INTEGER End Type

Description & Usage

The MEMORYSTATUSEX structure holds information about the computer's memory. The structure stores the amounts of total and available physical memory and virtual memory. All values for amounts of memory are stored as 64-bit integers.

Visual Basic-Specific Issues

None.

Data Members

dwLength

The size in bytes of the structure.

dwMemoryLoad

The percentage of total physical memory in use.

ullTotalPhys

The number of bytes of total physical memory.

ullAvailPhys

The number of bytes of available physical memory.

ullTotalPageFile

The largest possible size, in bytes, of the paging file. This is not necessarily the current size of the paging file.

ullAvailPageFile

The amount of space, in bytes, currently available in the paging file.

ullTotalVirtual

The number of bytes of total virtual memory.

ullAvailVirtual

The number of bytes of available virtual memory.

ullAvailExtendedVirtual

The number of bytes of unreserved and uncommitted memory in the extended portion of virtual memory.

Used By

GlobalMemoryStatusEx

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