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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:19:42 +0200
From: Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>
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Subject: Re: /proc/kcore size incorrect ?
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Hi.

> I expected /proc/kcore to give the size of your installed memory, with
> the reserved BIOS areas just not accesible, but it looks like it already
> has them discounted, so gives 1022 Mb.
> 
> It looks really silly to have a motd say "wellcome to this box, it has
> 2 xeons and 1022 Mb of RAM".

Then round it on 32MiB boundary? 128MiB boundary?

I did something else that "needed" the size of the memory installed
and that's how I did.

( I have an install script which I run at the end of an installation
  of a system that does a lot of stuff the distro doesn't and one
  of the things it does is simply to take the size of the memory
  rounded up, multiply by 2 and then create a swapfile in a specified
  location. )

// Stefan
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