Note that you can
drag and drop fonts and colors
onto the memory widget.
You can also double-click on the widget to have the
"&os2; Kernel" object opened quickly, which,
among other things, allows you to change the system's memory widget.
Implementation Details
Internally, this widget uses the The documentation for OS/2 1.3 says that this reports
"the size of the largest block of free memory". This is obviously not
true any more, since all 32-bit OS/2 versions (since 2.0) no longer
allocate memory in blocks, but with 4 KB page granularity instead.
From my experience, this API now does indeed show the amount of free
physical memory in the system, that is, the amount of RAM that is currently
not used by OS/2, either because it has never been used or swapped out
or released again by a process. (From my testing, this API returns the same
values as Theseus does for the free physical RAM.)
This free RAM can be used by applications immediately
without &os2; having to make room by swapping out other memory pages.
Dos16MemAvail
API,
an old 16-bit API that is no longer documented by IBM.