RE: 2.3.25-pre1 memory size is wrong.

nathan.zook@amd.com
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 13:57:41 -0500


There is an error in the routine which gathers the data to print out the
available memory. This appears to be a problem relating only to the
reporting of memory. Actual memory available should be fine. I am working
on a patch which will also take care of this error.

Nathan

-----Original Message-----
From: Tigran Aivazian [mailto:tigran@sco.COM]
Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:07 AM
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: 2.3.25-pre1 memory size is wrong.

Hi,

2.3.18 says:

Memory: 62128k/65536k available (936k kernel code, 1052k reserved, 1336k
data, 84k init, 0k bigmem)

2.3.25-pre1 says:

e820: 0009f800 @ 00000000 (usable)
e820: 00000800 @ 0009f800 (reserved)
e820: 00010000 @ 000f0000 (reserved)
e820: 03f00000 @ 00100000 (usable)
e820: 00010000 @ fec00000 (reserved)
e820: 00010000 @ fee00000 (reserved)
e820: 00080000 @ fff80000 (reserved)
e820: 00000000 @ 00000000 (usable)

Memory: 49088k/917504k available (0k kernel code, 0k reserved, 0k data, 0k
init, 0k highmem)

The machine is a Compaq Proliant 1600 dual PII/400 with 64M RAM.

Regards,
Tigran.

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