RE: 2.3.25-pre1 memory size is wrong.

nathan.zook@amd.com
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:32:06 -0600


This report comes from arch/i386/mm/init.c, where it is generated
incorrectly.

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Tigran Aivazian [mailto:tigran@sco.COM]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 4:44 AM
To: Zook, Nathan
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: RE: 2.3.25-pre1 memory size is wrong.

the file /proc/kcore sets it size like this:

(MAP_NR(high_memory) << PAGE_SHIFT) + PAGE_SIZE

are you saying that high_memory is set incorrectly?

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999 nathan.zook@amd.com wrote:

> There is an error in the routine which gathers the data to print out the
> available memory. This appears to be a problem relating only to the
> reporting of memory. Actual memory available should be fine. I am
working
> on a patch which will also take care of this error.
>
> Nathan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tigran Aivazian [mailto:tigran@sco.COM]
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:07 AM
> To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: 2.3.25-pre1 memory size is wrong.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> 2.3.18 says:
>
> Memory: 62128k/65536k available (936k kernel code, 1052k reserved, 1336k
> data, 84k init, 0k bigmem)
>
> 2.3.25-pre1 says:
>
> e820: 0009f800 @ 00000000 (usable)
> e820: 00000800 @ 0009f800 (reserved)
> e820: 00010000 @ 000f0000 (reserved)
> e820: 03f00000 @ 00100000 (usable)
> e820: 00010000 @ fec00000 (reserved)
> e820: 00010000 @ fee00000 (reserved)
> e820: 00080000 @ fff80000 (reserved)
> e820: 00000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
>
> Memory: 49088k/917504k available (0k kernel code, 0k reserved, 0k data, 0k
> init, 0k highmem)
>
> The machine is a Compaq Proliant 1600 dual PII/400 with 64M RAM.
>
> Regards,
> Tigran.
>
>
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