It's pretty naive, it cat's from /proc/mem and extracts MemTotal and MemAvailable: https://github.com/surban/memstop/blob/master/memstop.c#L40-L43 https://githu

It's pretty naive, it cat's from /proc/mem and extracts MemTotal and MemAvailable: https://github.com/surban/memstop/blob/master/memstop.c#L40-L43 https://github.com/surban/memstop/blob/master/memstop.c#L40-.... In other words, that's not how virtual memory works. And I actually don't know how I would go and solve this problem because of the way commit, overcommit, and paging algorithms can intervene with the goal.