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Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test2 : size of /proc/kcore is different from RAM size.
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Rémi Colinet wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have noticed that the /proc/kcore file has a different size (1Go) 
> compared with the available memory of my box (640Mo).
>
> [root@tigre01 kernel]# dmesg | grep Memory
> Memory: 643148k/655360k available (2331k kernel code, 11424k reserved, 
> 730k data, 348k init, 0k highmem)
>
> [root@tigre01 proc]# ls -l /proc | grep kcore
> -r--------    1 root     root     1073692672 Aug 10 21:43 kcore
> [root@tigre01 proc]#
>
> Is it a bug or just a new behaviour of the /proc/kcore?
>
> Regards,
> Rémi 

It's ok with 2.6.0-test3-mm1.

Remi