Re: [patch #406] [Patch #406] A small clean up of vmstat

[James Morrison]

> Patch #406 has been updated. 
> 
> Project: 
> Category: None
> Status: Open
> Summary:  A small clean up of vmstat
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> Follow-Ups:
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> Date: Thu 07/31/2003 at 22:44
> By: marcus
> 
> Comment:
> I am not sure what the problem is with the current code.  In your mail you 
> said that vmstat wouldn't report your memory size correctly, but it might 
> have reported correctly the available memory, ie the physical memory minus 
> the reserved memory.
> 
> Is this what we are talking about?
> 

 It seems I was confused when I sent this patch.  I figured vmstat should
actually show the memory that the system has as opposed to the memory the
system has available for user space processes.  This means the changes to
get_size and to the Makefile (which apparently I didn't attach) are not
useful.  This leaves the changes to use memset, which are fine.  It also
leaves changes some 0 values to -1.  I can't see my logic for this.

 I'm going to try to figure out how to discard this patch now.  That's for
commenting :)

Jim