Re: [PLUG] Re: What is /proc/kcore

[Toby DiPasquale <toby@cbcg.net>]

Paul wrote:
> I guess I'm just amazed that 320MB of RAM can be represented in core 
> format without using much memory, considering that my system is usually 
> using a large portion of that RAM.  I'll be happy to accept that it's 
> another one of those mysterious kernel things.

That's why its confusing to you. That's not a representation of the memory on 
your system; it __IS__ the memory on your system. Via the seq_file interface 
in the kernel, your RAM is read out on-the-fly when you read from /proc/kcore. 
Whatever's in RAM, that's what comes out.

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