How to retrieve available RAM from Windows command line?

Question

Is there a command line utility within Windows or third-party program that can retrieve available RAM on a machine? (Since I don\'t believe this can be done in pure JAVA, si

Answer 1

Use wmic computersystem get TotalPhysicalMemory. E.g.:

C:\>wmic computersystem get TotalPhysicalMemory
TotalPhysicalMemory
4294500352

Answer 2

systeminfo is a command that will output system information, including available memory

Answer 3

wmic OS get TotalVisibleMemorySize /Value

Note not TotalPhysicalMemory as suggested elsewhere

Answer 4

Here is a pure Java solution actually:

public static long getFreePhysicalMemory()
{
    com.sun.management.OperatingSystemMXBean bean =
            (com.sun.management.OperatingSystemMXBean)
                    java.lang.management.ManagementFactory.getOperatingSystemMXBean();
    return bean.getFreePhysicalMemorySize();
}

Answer 5

Try MemLog. It does the job perfectly and quickly.

Download via one of many mirrors, e.g. this one: SoftPedia page for MemLog.
(MemLog's author has a web site. But this is down some times. Wayback machine snapshot here.)

Example output:

C:\>memlog
2012/02/01,13:22:02,878956544,-1128333312,2136678400,2138578944,-17809408,2147352576

878956544 being the free memory