# Get free/used memory info

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-free-used-memory-info/318095>\
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**Created:** [January 10, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-free-used-memory-info/318095 "2011-01-10T16:25:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roland684](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3bc359/32.png) [@Roland684](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Roland684)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/get-free-used-memory-info/318095/1 "2011-01-10T16:25:34Z")

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I’m writing code for a system that is very limited in it’s memory. I’ve written some code to cache the data and movieclips used, but eventually I’ll need to free some memory before I run out (and flash is terminated)

Is there a way to find out

- how much memory flash/my .swf is using in total?
- how much memory is free?
- how much memory an object or movieclip (including it’s children) occupy?

I’m looking for something to decide wether or not I should release some memory. it doesn’t need to be very precise, just anything I can use as an indicator in actionscript 2.0

I’ve found that in Flash Lite I can use

```auto

fscommand2("GetTotalPlayerMemory")
fscommand2("GetFreePlayerMemory");

```

but unfortunately I’m not using Flash Lite and these commands don’t seem to exist in flash 7+.

Is there anything I could use?