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

[J.A. Magallon]

On 2005.10.25, at 18:02, Eric Piel wrote:

> 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...

Yes, I know...

If you remember, the question about 'how to guess this box mem' was
under something like "BTW ...", kinda collateral.

My concerns were about if the size of /proc/kcore should be what it is
now, and why...

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