Re: /proc/kcore size

["J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon _at_ xxxxxxx>]

On 01.12, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> To the request of one of my users, I installed the 'hinv' program (1.4pre1) by
> Larry McVoy.
> 
> Problem: it detects the memory amount in the box by stat'ing /proc/kcore.
> Thats not the problem, but that the box has 1Gb of memory, and kcore is just
> 896Mb big.
> 
> Kernel is built with 4Gb support:
> 
> annwn:/proc# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1033172    1017772      15400          0     164792     556416
> -/+ buffers/cache:     296564     736608
> Swap:      1951856          8    1951848
> 
> annwn:/proc# hinv
> Main memory size: 896 Mbytes
> ...
> 
> annwn:/proc# ll /proc/kcore
> -r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 /proc/kcore
> 
> Exactly the same as a box that has _really_ 896 Mb:
> 
> werewolf:/proc# ll kcore
> -r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 kcore
> 
> werewolf:/proc# free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        905012     276008     629004          0      27268     109344
> -/+ buffers/cache:     139396     765616
> Swap:       345356          0     345356
> 
> BUG ?
> 

Ooops, sorry. annwn is a (patched)2.4.24 and werewolf is 2.6.1-mm2(+hfsplusfs).

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