Re: /proc/kcore size incorrect ? (OT)

From: Eric Piel
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 11:03:32 EST


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
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