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Author: Michael Havens
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: /proc/meminfo
just ignore me..... I don't know what I'm talking about!

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Michael Havens <> wrote:

> 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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>> James McPhee
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