Thank you both for your responses. I still have not figured this out, but I appreciate your replies. I wasn't sure if this list was still around, but I thought I would try to liven it up with a question ;-) All the best, -Jamie On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Gayathri Swaminathan <gayathri.swa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Think Jamie is right. > > I have observed behaviour were this file grows based on accessed memory > (would this be kernel shared mem params?) > > But it is definitely not just size of physical RAM+4KB on a machine. > > gayathri > > On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Astarta <astarta@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Jamie Levy wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I know this list has been rather quiet for a while... so I might as >>> well ask a question :-) >> >> Hello, >> >> I really thought that this list is completely dead :-) >> >>> >>> This does not seem to be the case, however, when I do a listing in >>> /proc/kcore on my machine (F8) which has 2 GB of memory: >>> >>> ls -lh /proc/kcore >>> -r-------- 1 root root 897M 2008-08-01 19:05 /proc/kcore >>> >>> I have confirmed the same type of results on other machines to which I >>> have access. I also do not seem to have the kcore.h file on my system >>> (and I have kernel-devel installed), since it is a zero byte file: >>> >>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2008-07-21 02:05 >>> /usr/src/kernels/2.6.25.11-60.fc8-i686/include/config/proc/kcore.h >>> >> >> >> As far as I know, the size of kcore is equal not to the size of _all_ >> physical memory installed on the machine, but just to the amount of memory >> accessible by kernel. >> Your kernel seems to be compiled with HIGHMEM support, and if you do `ls >> -l /proc/kcore` you see your LOWMEM size, the real memory that the kernel >> uses. That the reason why the difference you mentioned comes. >> >> Someone will correct me, if I'm wrong :) >> >>> >>> All the best, >>> >>> -Jamie Levy >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fedora-women-list mailing list >>> Fedora-women-list@xxxxxxxxxx >>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list >> >> >> -- >> with best regards, >> Fadeeva Marina. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fedora-women-list mailing list >> Fedora-women-list@xxxxxxxxxx >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list > > > > -- > Gayathri Swaminathan > gpgkey: 3EFB3D39 > Volunteer, FDP > -- ============================== Jamie Levy Computer Science Dept Queens College http://venus.cs.qc.edu/~jlevy ============================== _______________________________________________ Fedora-women-list mailing list Fedora-women-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-women-list
