RE: Out of Memory at 20GB of free memory ??

["M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@aracnet.com>]

> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of RaúlNúñez de
> Arenas Coronado
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:05 AM

> >/proc/meminfo after the first process kill:
> >        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> >Mem:  33815060480 13490249728 20324810752        0 15745024 13089452032
>
>     This leads to a suggestion... How about aligning the top
> indication with the numbers below (or even better, putting them in
> different lines ;)))
>
>     Even with more than 99MB of RAM (quite usual these days), the top
> line is misaligned and a little bit confusing.
>
>     I can make the necessary patch if anyone is interested.
>
>     Raúl

My impression was that the top few lines of /proc/meminfo were being "phased
out" in favor of the one-entry-per-line-in kB numbers below. If that is the
case (and assuming we don't want to change that to KiB or something of that
ilk :) perhaps what needs to change is not /proc/meminfo but "top".
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M. Edward Borasky
znmeb@borasky-research.net
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