Re: Memory usage and /proc/meminfo question

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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:10:07PM +0530, karunakar rao wrote:
> > > I noticed LowTotal,LowFree entries are missing .
> > > Can any one explain why those entries are not there.even HighTotal and
> > > HighFree are missing.
> > >It is an x86_64 kernel, so it does not support highmem.
>     ya thanks, but  what about LowTotal,LowFree

LowTotal = MemTotal - HighTotal
LowFree = MemFree - HighFree

On a non-highmem system, these numbers are not interesting so they are
not printed.

You can see how it works in fs/proc/proc_misc.c. Look for CONFIG_HIGHMEM.

Joris.

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