Re: Just cosmethic but...

From: J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 18:19:21 EST


On 20020805 DervishD wrote:
> Hi all :)
>
> The output of 'cat /proc/meminfo' is ugly by today standards,
> since is very frequent having more than 99 Mb of RAM and the current
> meminfo just supports 8 digits before outputting ugly tabulations.
>
> So, how about raising that 8 digits to at least 10, thus allowing
> pretty tabulations up to 9 Gb of RAM?
>

Why 10 ?
    unsigned long k32= ~0;
    unsigned long long k64 = ~0;
    printf("%d %lu\n",sizeof(k32)*8,k32);
    printf("%d %llu\n",sizeof(k64)*8,k64);

gives

32 4294967295
64 18446744073709551615

On a 64 bit box you could have 2^64 bytes.
Opps, and on a 32bit box you could have 16Gb of swap ?
1Tb is:
    unsigned long long k64 = 1ULL<<40;
64 1099511627776

13 digits (nice number ;))

Sorry, late at night here...

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