Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:48:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:47:55 -0400 Received: from titan.golden.net ([199.166.210.90]:15572 "EHLO titan.golden.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:47:41 -0400 From: "John L. Males" Organization: Toronto, Ontario, Canada To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 03:47:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Linux Kernel 2.2.19 Available Memory Bug Reply-to: software_iq@TheOffice.net Message-ID: <3B57A9DF.10547.A92B31@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Please note I am not on the Kernel Mailing List so do try to copy me in with any reply, questions, clarifications, confirmations, et al on this bug report. Before I forget I am using SuSE 6.4 with most of the updates from the base applied, most meaning I generally lag a bit behind at times. I am NOT using the SuSE kernel due to bugs introduced into the SuSE kernel with the SuSE patches/enhancements. I am using the Linus 2.2.19 Kernel with the OpenWall patches. System is AMD K6-2 500 based system. The version of gcc was 2.95.2 to compile the kernel. The bug I am reporting is that when one sets the amount of memory, i.e. 128M, 256M; at the time of booting the 2.2.19 kernel the "Total Memory" as reported by KDE, "free", etc is short by a important amount. To be more specific I will detail the results of "free" below against the "mem" value passed to the kernel. Please note for the purposes of this test I always had 256MB or ram (2x128MB) installed in my system. The BIOS reports total system memory as 262144K. "mem=256m" *************** KDE reports 251.09 Total System memory, or 263290880 bytes. "free -m" indicates "Total Memory" as 251 "free -k" indicates "Total Memory" as 257120 "free -k" indicates "Total Memory" as 263290880 The exact same vaules as noted above are indicated for "mem=262144k", and "mem=268435546" (256 X 1024 x 1024). "mem=128m" *************** "free -m" indicates "Total Memory" as 124 "free -k" indicates "Total Memory" as 127344 "free -k" indicates "Total Memory" as 130400256 Regards, John L. Males Software I.Q. Consulting Toronto, Ontario Canada 20 July 2001 03:47 mailto:software_iq@TheOffice.net mailto:jlmales@softhome.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBO1fwKPLzhJbmoDZ+EQKQowCfcqeGPdpduaFpTQO1P9XaOlJccHEAn20p v0V59vV7rrFEvMQCLwzXyO2V =Ezn3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/