Re: Problems with /proc/meminfo & free
David Holland (dholland@hcs.harvard.edu)
Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:11:58 -0500 (EST)
> Hmm, well as the format of /proc/meminfo has changed (again), can we have
> all the values the same (ie bytes/kbytes) ? Ok, this change was handled
> by free and friends, but not totaly:
>
> contence of /proc/meminfo:
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 15515648 8028160 7487488 5804032 888832 3665920
> Swap: 70180864 0 70180864
> MemTotal: 15152 kB
> MemFree: 7312 kB
> MemShared: 5668 kB
> Buffers: 868 kB
> Cached: 3580 kB
> SwapTotal: 68536 kB
> SwapFree: 68536 kB
I'd ask why meminfo is now reporting two copies of each piece of
information... wouldn't it be better to have either the horizontal or
vertical format, but not both?
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