RE: Out of Memory at 20GB of free memory ??

M. Edward Borasky (znmeb@aracnet.com)
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 07:23:55 -0800


> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of RaúlNúñez de
> Arenas Coronado
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:05 AM

> >/proc/meminfo after the first process kill:
> > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> >Mem: 33815060480 13490249728 20324810752 0 15745024 13089452032
>
> This leads to a suggestion... How about aligning the top
> indication with the numbers below (or even better, putting them in
> different lines ;)))
>
> Even with more than 99MB of RAM (quite usual these days), the top
> line is misaligned and a little bit confusing.
>
> I can make the necessary patch if anyone is interested.
>
> Raúl

My impression was that the top few lines of /proc/meminfo were being "phased
out" in favor of the one-entry-per-line-in kB numbers below. If that is the
case (and assuming we don't want to change that to KiB or something of that
ilk :) perhaps what needs to change is not /proc/meminfo but "top".

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M. Edward Borasky
znmeb@borasky-research.net
http://www.borasky-research.net

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