Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:53:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:53:07 -0500 Received: from mail09.voicenet.com ([207.103.0.35]:52162 "HELO mail09.voicenet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 18:52:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3A7F3CD7.620AF808@voicenet.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:52:55 -0500 From: safemode X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19pre7 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: /proc/meminfo displays incorrect memory sizes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I personally have no way of knowing if it's giving incorrect numbers for cache and buffers and used and such .. but as for total memory, something is wrong. lm sensors tells me i have 288MB of ram, the bootup messages say i have 288MB of memory with 4MB being used by the kernel and my bios says i have 288MB. /proc/meminfo, however, says i have @167MB. Is this correct? and why ? i'm using 2.2.19-pre7 I have agpgart and mtrr compiled in < from dmesg > Memory: 290412k/294848k available (864k kernel code, 412k reserved, 3112k data, 48k init) Dentry hash table entries: 65536 (order 7, 512k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k) Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 232M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo KX133 chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000 bttv: driver version 0.7.54 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (16640k total) for capture that adds to 31.148MB (used) @288MB full @284MB useable < from sensors > Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type: SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB): 128 eeprom-i2c-2-51 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type: SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB): 64 eeprom-i2c-2-52 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type: SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB): 64 eeprom-i2c-2-53 Adapter: SMBus vt82c596 adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type: SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB): 32 that adds to 288 total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 280281088 276422656 3858432 86532096 69550080 108240896 Swap: 139821056 0 139821056 MemTotal: 273712 kB MemFree: 3768 kB MemShared: 84504 kB Buffers: 67920 kB Cached: 105704 kB SwapTotal: 136544 kB SwapFree: 136544 kB that is about 267MB total anyone? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/