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From: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
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 ? (OT)
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:02:40 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435E5720.6030105@tremplin-utc.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051024015710.29a02e63@werewolf.able.es>

J.A. Magallon wrote:
:
> 
> It looks really silly to have a motd say "wellcome to this box, it has
> 2 xeons and 1022 Mb of RAM".
Ok, everyone seems to go with his idea on this thread so I'd like to 
share mine too :-P

If you want to know how much _physical_ memory there is on your 
computer, then a good way would be too use dmidecode. The parsing might 
require more work than a "du" but you will never have trouble with 
rounding...

Eric

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25 16:03 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
2005-10-25 13:37       ` Brian Waite
2005-10-25 16:02     ` Eric Piel [this message]
2005-10-25 16:06       ` /proc/kcore size incorrect ? (OT) J.A. Magallon
2005-10-25 18:04         ` Tony Luck

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