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From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, jonmasters@gmail.com,
	"Linux-Kernel," <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: /proc/kcore size incorrect ?
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:19:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435CED7E.6000402@stesmi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051024015710.29a02e63@werewolf.able.es>

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Hi.

> I expected /proc/kcore to give the size of your installed memory, with
> the reserved BIOS areas just not accesible, but it looks like it already
> has them discounted, so gives 1022 Mb.
> 
> It looks really silly to have a motd say "wellcome to this box, it has
> 2 xeons and 1022 Mb of RAM".

Then round it on 32MiB boundary? 128MiB boundary?

I did something else that "needed" the size of the memory installed
and that's how I did.

( I have an install script which I run at the end of an installation
  of a system that does a lot of stuff the distro doesn't and one
  of the things it does is simply to take the size of the memory
  rounded up, multiply by 2 and then create a swapfile in a specified
  location. )

// Stefan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-24 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-23 21:58 /proc/kcore size incorrect ? J.A. Magallon
2005-10-23 23:13 ` Jon Masters
2005-10-23 23:57   ` J.A. Magallon
2005-10-24 12:02     ` Jon Masters
2005-10-24 14:19     ` Stefan Smietanowski [this message]
2005-10-25 12:04     ` Matan Peled
2005-10-25 13:37       ` Brian Waite
2005-10-25 16:02     ` /proc/kcore size incorrect ? (OT) Eric Piel
2005-10-25 16:06       ` J.A. Magallon
2005-10-25 18:04         ` Tony Luck

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