/proc/kcore size

Hi all...

To the request of one of my users, I installed the 'hinv' program (1.4pre1) by Larry McVoy.

Problem: it detects the memory amount in the box by stat'ing /proc/kcore. Thats not the problem, but that the box has 1Gb of memory, and kcore is just 896Mb big.

Kernel is built with 4Gb support:

annwn:/proc# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1033172    1017772      15400          0     164792     556416
-/+ buffers/cache:     296564     736608
Swap:      1951856          8    1951848

annwn:/proc# hinv
Main memory size: 896 Mbytes
...

annwn:/proc# ll /proc/kcore
-r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 /proc/kcore

Exactly the same as a box that has _really_ 896 Mb:

werewolf:/proc# ll kcore
-r--------    1 root     root     939528192 Jan 12 10:02 kcore

werewolf:/proc# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        905012     276008     629004          0      27268     109344
-/+ buffers/cache:     139396     765616
Swap:       345356          0     345356

BUG ?

TIA

J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es>     \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.1-jam2 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk))

Ooops, sorry. annwn is a (patched)2.4.24 and werewolf is 2.6.1-mm2(+hfsplusfs).

J.A. Magallon <jamagallon()able!es>     \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf!able!es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.6.1-jam2 (gcc 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk))