Just cosmethic but...

Just cosmethic but...

[DervishD]

    Hi all :)

    The output of 'cat /proc/meminfo' is ugly by today standards,
since is very frequent having more than 99 Mb of RAM and the current
meminfo just supports 8 digits before outputting ugly tabulations.

    So, how about raising that 8 digits to at least 10, thus allowing
pretty tabulations up to 9 Gb of RAM?

    If it will be accepted I can make the patch against the current
-ac kernel, for example. I know that is only a cosmethic change, but
I use meminfo a lot and I would like to see a good tabulation ;))

    Raúl

Re: Just cosmethic but...

[J.A. Magallon]

On 20020805 DervishD wrote:
>     Hi all :)
> 
>     The output of 'cat /proc/meminfo' is ugly by today standards,
> since is very frequent having more than 99 Mb of RAM and the current
> meminfo just supports 8 digits before outputting ugly tabulations.
> 
>     So, how about raising that 8 digits to at least 10, thus allowing
> pretty tabulations up to 9 Gb of RAM?
> 

Why 10 ?
    unsigned long k32= ~0;
    unsigned long long k64 = ~0;
    printf("%d %lu\n",sizeof(k32)*8,k32);
    printf("%d %llu\n",sizeof(k64)*8,k64);

gives

32 4294967295
64 18446744073709551615

On a 64 bit box you could have 2^64 bytes.
Opps, and on a 32bit box you could have 16Gb of swap ?
1Tb is:
    unsigned long long k64 = 1ULL<<40;
64 1099511627776

13 digits (nice number ;))

Sorry, late at night here...

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Re: Just cosmethic but...

[DervishD]

    Hi Magallon :)

>>     So, how about raising that 8 digits to at least 10, thus allowing
>> pretty tabulations up to 9 Gb of RAM?
>Why 10 ?

    Just for being conservative ;)) Truly, the whole format should be
changed, but...

>13 digits (nice number ;))

    I think that 13 digits will fit well too ;))

    Raúl

Re: Just cosmethic but...

[Kasper Dupont]

DervishD wrote:
> 
> Truly, the whole format should be changed, but...

In that case try removing the first three lines, and
start fixing all userspace programs that breaks.

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