On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 01:35:51AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> The following patch reinstates the traditional sysinfo(2) interface by
> returning bytes (not units of PAGE_SIZE) for memory values.
> + /* These are in units of PAGE_SIZE, but this interface
> + * has always returned bytes. Make it return bytes */
> + val.totalram*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.freeram*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.sharedram*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.bufferram*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.totalswap*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.freeswap*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.totalhigh*=PAGE_SIZE;
> + val.freehigh*=PAGE_SIZE;
You forgot setting mem_unit to 1.
Why can't your application multiply by mem_unit?
The present patch is no good, I suppose. For example, it wouldnt
allow more than 4 GiB memory or swap on a 32-bit machine.
Andries
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