get_free_ram_mb: Estimate available system RAM in megabytes
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View source: R/matching_memory.R
get_free_ram_mb R Documentation
Estimate available system RAM in megabytes
Description
Cross-platform, base-R-only (shells out; no new package dependency).
Never errors: returns NA_real_ if detection fails or the platform is
unrecognized, so callers must treat NA as "unknown" and fall back to a
fixed threshold rather than skipping the guard entirely.
Usage
get_free_ram_mb()
Details
"Available" means memory an allocation can obtain without swapping, which on
every platform is more than the untouched free list: Linux reports it
directly as MemAvailable, and on macOS it is the free, inactive and
speculative pages together, since the kernel keeps almost nothing on the
free list and reclaims the rest on demand.
Value
Numeric scalar (MB of available RAM), or NA_real_ if undetermined.
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View source: R/matching_memory.R
| get_free_ram_mb | R Documentation |
Estimate available system RAM in megabytes
Description
Cross-platform, base-R-only (shells out; no new package dependency).
Never errors: returns NA_real_ if detection fails or the platform is
unrecognized, so callers must treat NA as "unknown" and fall back to a
fixed threshold rather than skipping the guard entirely.
Usage
get_free_ram_mb()
Details
"Available" means memory an allocation can obtain without swapping, which on
every platform is more than the untouched free list: Linux reports it
directly as MemAvailable, and on macOS it is the free, inactive and
speculative pages together, since the kernel keeps almost nothing on the
free list and reclaims the rest on demand.
Value
Numeric scalar (MB of available RAM), or NA_real_ if undetermined.
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