On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 02:34:35PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2005 2:26 pm, Francesco Talamona said: > > On Saturday 14 May 2005 15:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > >> kcore is a snapshot of your physical memory, its size is always equal > >> to the amount of RAM in your computer. > > > > *always* > > [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ ll /proc/kcore > > -r-------- 1 root root 939528192 May 14 15:24 /proc/kcore > > [15:24] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ free > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 1554460 1433900 120560 0 125208 > > 753836 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 554856 999604 > > Swap: 250952 0 250952 > > That's how I understood it, and I've never seen it to be any different. > > Maybe someone can explain this, but yours is the first system I've seen > where the figures don't match.
That is also the way I understand it. A simple google search turns up lots of info, consider: http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2003-08/msg00093.html http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/papers/slinux/node57.html -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF
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