Hi Erik,
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Wed Aug 22, 2001 at 08:44:39AM +0200, Christoph Rohland wrote:
>>
>> BTW I appreciate the basics of the change for 2.4, but I don't
>> agree that we should break cases which worked before. (And the
>> comment in the sources is plain wrong that 2.2 failed in these
>> cases)
>
> But 2.2 _did_ fail. If you take a linux 2.2.x system, add 4 Gigs of
> swap, and then use sysinfo(), the sizes you get back are junk...
But if you add 3.9GB it is ok. Also with 3.9GB RAM. And that's a quite
common machine in our environment.
If one of these overflows I agree that the 2.4 scheme is better. But
we should keep compatibility as long as we have no single field which
overflows.
And that's what my patch implements.
Greetings
Christoph
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