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SubjectLost memory, total memory size is not correct
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Hello,

I tried to get the amount of total physical memory. I looked at /proc/meminfo
and found this line (2.4.18):

MemTotal: 30844 kB

But this is not correct the system have 32768 kB Memory. I looked at kernel
sources and I found the variable max_mapnr. Can I use it to detect the
correct memory size? It seems that it stores the maximum number of pages
usable. So I can convert it with macro K() in linux/fs/proc/proc_misc.c to a
value in kB.

But there are 1924 kB not available (32768 kB - 30844 kB). On system boot I
get the following message:
Memory: 30780k available (960k kernel code, 392k data, 64k init, 0k highmem)
So I calculated:

1924 kB
-960 kB Kernel
- 392 kB Data
- 64 kB Init
--------------------
508 kB

There are 508 kB lost (?) memory. It seems the boot allocator is reserving
this memory, but linux doesn't tell for what. I want to know for what the 508
kB are. Is the kernel stack included in the 508 kB or in the 30844 kB. I
don't think so, because the value 30844 kB isn't changing after boot. And
every process should allocate 8 kB kernel stack.

Best Regards
Jürgen Urban

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