get system free memory in rust

To get the system free memory in Rust, you can use the jemalloc crate and its mallctl function. Here's an example:

main.rs
extern crate jemalloc_sys;

use std::mem;

fn main() {
    let mut mib = [jemalloc_sys::CTL_HW, jemalloc_sys::HW_MEMSIZE, jemalloc_sys::CTL_KERN, jemalloc_sys::KERN_USRSTACK64];
    let mut memsize: usize = mem::size_of::<usize>();
    unsafe {
        jemalloc_sys::mallctl(
            b"hw.pagesize\0".as_ptr() as *const i8,
            std::ptr::null_mut(),
            &mut memsize as *mut usize as *mut libc::c_void,
            &mut memsize,
            std::ptr::null(),
            0,
        );
        jemalloc_sys::mallctl(
            b"vm.stats.vm.v_free_count\0".as_ptr() as *const i8,
            std::ptr::null_mut(),
            &mut memsize as *mut usize as *mut libc::c_void,
            &mut memsize,
            std::ptr::null(),
            0,
        );
        let bytes = (memsize as u64) * (*mib.last().unwrap() as u64);
        println!("Free Memory: {:?}", bytes);
    }
}
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This code snippet uses the mallctl function to get the system free memory. First, it gets the page size with the hw.pagesize command, then it gets the free memory count with the vm.stats.vm.v_free_count command. Finally, it calculates the total free memory in bytes and prints it to the console. Note that the jemalloc crate provides FFI bindings for malloc() and related functions, and is used here to call mallctl(). The unsafe block is used because the mallctl() function is a C function and must be called using FFI.

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