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Re: [PLUG] Re: What is /proc/kcore
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Toby DiPasquale wrote:
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.
That makes sense.
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