Comment 4 for bug 706764

Hi,

Gerry Reno wrote:
> When I look at upstream 20061020-3:
> MEMSIZE="`head -1 /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print $2 }'`"
> looks like it still might be high by a factor of 1024 since MEMSIZE is in megabytes and meminfo is in kilobytes.
>
> That is why my patch adjusted for the difference:
> MEMSIZE=$(($(cat /proc/meminfo | awk '/^MemTotal/ { print $2 }') / 1024))

Indeed. Probably got through unnoticed because of the reintroduction
of a maximum size. Thanks for spotting that.

It's though fixed in the current upstream developement snapshot:

      MEMTOTAL="`grep '^MemTotal:' /proc/meminfo | awk '{ print $2 }'`"
      # make MBytes which rounded down will be about 10 too few, so add 10
      MEMSIZE="`echo "${MEMTOTAL} 1024 / 10 + p q" | dc`"
      # compute desired swap size, as factor * RAM
      CONF_SWAPSIZE="`echo "${MEMSIZE} ${CONF_SWAPFACTOR} * p q" | dc`"
      # remove any fractional MBytes
      CONF_SWAPSIZE="`echo "${CONF_SWAPSIZE}" | cut -f 1 -d '.'`"

  Regards, Axel
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