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Determine system memory status



Determine system memory status

Calculate how many free and used bytes of memory you have 
using the following routine:

Option Explicit

Private Type MEMORYSTATUS
    memLength As Long
    memMemoryLoad As Long
    memTotalPhys As Long
    memAvailPhys As Long
    memTotalPageFile As Long
    memAvailPageFile As Long
    memTotalVirtual As Long
    memAvailVirtual As Long
End Type

Private Declare Sub GlobalMemoryStatus Lib "kernel32" (lpBuffer As MEMORYSTATUS)


'Purpose     :  Returns information of the system memory usage/allocation
'Inputs      :  lType           A long from 1 to 7 specifying the type of
'                               memory details you want returned
'Outputs     :  -1              if failed
'               Or a long indicating the memory for the specified lType parameter

Function Memory(lType As Long) As Long
    Const clKB As Long = 1024
    Dim tMS As MEMORYSTATUS
        
    tMS.memLength = Len(tMS)
    GlobalMemoryStatus tMS
    Select Case lType
    Case 1
        Memory = tMS.memMemoryLoad
    Case 2
        Memory = tMS.memTotalPhys / clKB
    Case 3
        Memory = tMS.memAvailPhys / clKB
    Case 4
        Memory = tMS.memTotalPageFile / clKB
    Case 5
        Memory = tMS.memAvailPageFile / clKB
    Case 6
        Memory = tMS.memTotalVirtual / clKB
    Case 7
        Memory = tMS.memAvailVirtual / clKB
    Case Else
        'Invalid number
        Memory = -1
    End Select
End Function