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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 23:55:13 -0800
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: "MB" instead of "K bytes" in memory probe?
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> The attached patch replaces the "K bytes" figure in the memory probe
> ("{real,avail} memory = XXX") with a MB figure.  Before-and-after from
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct 21 22:44:21 dsa kernel: real memory  = 266493952 (260248K bytes)
> Oct 21 22:44:21 dsa kernel: avail memory = 253214720 (247280K bytes)
> Oct 29 15:55:18 dsa kernel: real memory  = 266493952 (254 MB)
> Oct 29 15:55:18 dsa kernel: avail memory = 251641856 (239 MB)
> 
> Not a big thing, but I find the last two lines far easier to read than
> the first two.  Any objections to committing this patch?

It's kind of annoying that the KVA gets subtracted out up front;
I'm pretty sure that you don't have 254MB of SIMMs...

-- Terry

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