Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Dec 2003 10:18:58 -0500 (EST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: /proc/meminfo values |
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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> but with 2.6 it looks like they have been removed. where can i get the > exactly free memory (+ swap) from the kernel so i havn't to use the > kb-values which i get back from /proc/meminfo?
The values are in page granularity. On x86 you're not going to get them at any finer granularity than 4kB increments, because that is the page size.
The kB values are still smaller than the allocation granularity, so no accuracy is lost.
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