Here you can find the source of getAvailableMemory()
public static long getAvailableMemory()
//package com.java2s; /*/* ww w.ja va2 s.c o m*/ This file is part of PSFj. PSFj is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. PSFj is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with PSFj. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. Copyright 2013,2014 Cyril MONGIS, Patrick Theer, Michael Knop */ public class Main { /** * Gets the available memory. * * @return the available memory */ public static long getAvailableMemory() { Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime(); int max = (int) (runtime.maxMemory() / 1024 / 1024); int total = (int) (runtime.totalMemory() / 1024 / 1024); int free = (int) (runtime.freeMemory() / 1024 / 1024); free = free + max - total; int used = max - free; return free; } }