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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: /proc/meminfo
when you do df and du and stuff there is the 'h' option (human readable).
Try running it with that option.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:57 PM, James Mcphee <> wrote:

>     MemTotal: Total usable ram (i.e. physical ram minus a few reserved
>               bits and the kernel binary code)

>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Keith Smith <>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm looking at a server and ran cat /proc/meminfo and got:
>>
>> MemTotal:        3781692 kB

>>
>> I was expecting 2GB or 4GB.
>>
>> According to https://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Deployment_Guide/s2-
>> proc-meminfo.html MemTotal is total RAM. In their example they show:
>>
>> MemTotal:       255908 kB

>>
>> and say that is 256MB of RAM.
>>
>> 256MB = 262144KB. Am I wrong?
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> Thanks!!
>>
>>
>>
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