Re: Problems with /proc/meminfo & free

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:29:06 +0000 (GMT)


On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, David Holland wrote:

> > [contence of /proc/meminfo in very recent kernels with extra rows of
> > info in Kbytes]
> 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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> - David A. Holland | Number of words in the English language that
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>
No Idea why, but I think that one is for the machines, and one for us
humies as ones in bytes (and I personally can never tell you that x bytes
is aproxmitly y Kbytes, I assume that I'm not alone).
Bryn

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