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/proc/meminfo MemTotal less than what's in reality [message #51895]

Wed, 18 February 2015 21:22

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Registered: March 2014
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I am using kernel .6.32-openvz-042stab090.3-amd64 on Debian Wheezy.

When I cat /proc/meminfo or user free etc I get 131982480 kB, which /1024 and /1024 comes to 125gB. However tools like lshw show 128gB.

Is the OVZ kernel reserving some of the memory thus not reporting it, or any other ideas ?

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