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From: Matan Peled <chaosite@gmail.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: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:04:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435E1F36.2030108@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051024015710.29a02e63@werewolf.able.es>

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J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 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".

I don't know why, but 'du' seems to be doing a better job.

chaosite@kaitou ~ $ du /proc/kcore --block-size=1M
1024	/proc/kcore
chaosite@kaitou ~ $ echo $(($(stat -c %s /proc/kcore) / 1024 / 1024))
1023

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25 12:02 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
2005-10-25 12:04     ` Matan Peled [this message]
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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