From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wrong Vmalloc numbers in /proc/meminfo
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:56:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200909281856.08969.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090928113222.ae0f49c5.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
On Monday 28 September 2009, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
> > VmallocUsed: 340084 kB
> > VmallocChunk: 34359387131 kB
> >
> > Is it me or are VmallocTotal and VmallocChunk off by a factor 10,000
> > or so?
>
> I'm sorry I misunderstand your 10,000 implies.
What I meant is: is the Vmalloc area really 32 *terra*bytes in size?
Seems rather big for a system with only 2GB RAM.
I'd never noticed it before and it looks strange to me, but I guess it's
just the result of having 64-bit addressing: a theoretically addressable
area most of which will never actually be used?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-28 0:09 Frans Pop
2009-09-28 2:32 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-09-28 16:56 ` Frans Pop [this message]
2009-09-28 23:59 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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