On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 05:06:29PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> > > Before:
> > > On node 0 totalpages: 589824
> > > zone(0): 589824 pages.
> > >
> > >
> > > After:
> > > On node 0 totalpages: 65536
> > > zone(0): 65536 pages.
> >
> > I probably already got used too machines with gigs of memory to notice ;-)
>
> The number actually denotes the highest page, regardless of the number of
> pages, so you only need a single page placed far away from address zero to
> observe such large counts.
Wouldnt be this correct ? Realsize is size - holes.
Index: mm/page_alloc.c
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RCS file: /cvs/linux/mm/page_alloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -r1.49 page_alloc.c
--- mm/page_alloc.c 2001/01/11 04:02:45 1.49
+++ mm/page_alloc.c 2001/01/16 16:26:55
@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@
if (zholes_size)
realsize -= zholes_size[j];
- printk("zone(%lu): %lu pages.\n", j, size);
+ printk("zone(%lu): %lu pages.\n", j, realsize);
zone->size = size;
zone->name = zone_names[j];
zone->lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
Flo
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Florian Lohoff flo@rfc822.org +49-5201-669912
Why is it called "common sense" when nobody seems to have any?
