How do you determine the amount of system memory?

[Thomas Charron]

On 7/30/08, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2008, at 10:03, Thomas Charron wrote:
> >   MemTotal can change.  MemTotal doesn't show memory utilized by the
> > kernel binaries themselves in memory, however there are situations
> > where modules can leak memory which also removes from MemTotal.  I
> > don't recall the specifics of this happening, but I do know what Paul
> > is talking about now.
> Well, that's only a bug if you define MemTotal as the physical memory
> present in a machine.  If you view it as total memory available to
> the kernel, it's performing correctly, right?

  Yes, and the 'bug' is when that number goes down, it means
somethings leaking, aka, a 'bad kernel'.  At least potentially 'bad'
(read potentially buggy) kernel modules.

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-- Thomas