On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 tigran@veritas.com wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Cefiar wrote:
>
> > At 08:24 PM 20/10/00 -0400, Zhixu Liu wrote:
> > >My PC have 128M RAM, but in /proc/meminfo, it display 122424K, not
> > >128*1024K = 131072K, what does this mean?
> >
> > Sounds like something is stealing your ram.
> >
> > Usual suspects are..
>
> no, things are a lot simpler than that. /proc/meminfo shows the total
> amount of usable memory which obviously can't include the amount reserved
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looking at the code this no longer looks obvious -- does anyone know what
is the correct definition of totalram_pages? It would be nice if
totalram_pages stood for "total number of RAM pages" but it doesn't
seem to... It seems to be a sum of "low" and "high" pages. Does it include
kernel text/data/init or not?
> by the kernel text and data. Interestingly, it is not quite the same
> number as the one shown at boot "Memory: bla/bla...". The one at boot is
> nr_free_pages() whilst the one shown in /proc/meminfo is totalram_pages --
> they are different.
Tigran
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