How do you determine the amount of system memory?

[Paul Lussier]

"Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:

> On 7/29/08, Paul Lussier <p.lussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>> "Thomas Charron" <twaffle at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Are you talking about a real bug, or the fact that meminfo only
>> > reports non kernel memory?
>> A real bug.
>
>   A bug in that /proc/meminfo doesn't report the amount of physical
> memory uder MemTotal?

Yes, and that possibly, over time, the amount of memory in
/proc/meminfo actually decreases.

I know there's an official, known-to-be-a-problem bug on this
somewhere in the kernel bug tracking.  I just don't know the exact
details.  I was given the task of "figure out how we can test this".
And, just being back from vacation, my mind is rather fuzzy on just
about everything, including the time of day and day of week...
-- 
Seeya,
Paul