Re: Size of /proc/kcore growing over time ?

From: Martin.Knoblauch (Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de)
Date: Mon May 14 2001 - 01:37:45 EST


"J . A . Magallon" wrote:
>
> On 05.11 Martin.Knoblauch wrote:
> >
> > I ask, because I thought the size of kproc could be used to determine
> > the amount of physical memory. If this assumption is wrong, is there
> > another way to achive the goal?
> >
>
> #include <sys/sysinfo.h> // for get_phys_pages()
> #include <unistd.h> // for getpagesize()
>
> ram = get_phys_pages()*getpagesize();
>

 Close, but not there :-) What I want is the total physical memory in
the system. Above seems to report only the physical pages available to
the kernel.

Thanks anyway
Martin

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