Re: /proc/kcore size incorrect ?

[Matan Peled <chaosite@gmail.com>]

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J.A. Magallon wrote:
> 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".

I don't know why, but 'du' seems to be doing a better job.

chaosite@kaitou ~ $ du /proc/kcore --block-size=1M
1024	/proc/kcore
chaosite@kaitou ~ $ echo $(($(stat -c %s /proc/kcore) / 1024 / 1024))
1023

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