MySQL Bugs: #6909: Reports bad amount of RAM

Bug #6909	Reports bad amount of RAM
Submitted:	1 Dec 2004 6:37	Modified:	4 Feb 2005 2:02
Reporter:	[ name withheld ]	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Administrator	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	1.0.14	OS:	Linux (Debian/Linux)
Assigned to:	Alfredo Kojima	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
I have 1GB of RAM, but Administrator reports,

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ 1662.722 MHz, 1 MB RAM

How to repeat:
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Hi Adam,

Can you please send the output of /proc/meminfo and your kernel version?
Thanks

adamm@mira:~$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      1036440 kB
MemFree:         84420 kB
Buffers:        258596 kB
Cached:         411272 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         500580 kB
Inactive:       353188 kB
HighTotal:      131008 kB
HighFree:         3696 kB
LowTotal:       905432 kB
LowFree:         80724 kB
SwapTotal:      979880 kB
SwapFree:       979880 kB
Dirty:             360 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         235852 kB
Slab:            84616 kB
Committed_AS:   438872 kB
PageTables:       1956 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:     24276 kB
VmallocChunk:    89076 kB

adamm@mira:~$ uname -a
Linux mira 2.6.9-2-k7 #1 Fri Dec 24 21:47:39 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

But I noticed this problem a long time ago (earlier 2.6.x kernels).

On 1.0.19 (x86 pc-linux binary on Debian unstable):
My 2GB of ram is reported as 356240B RAM

stewart@faith:~/Desktop/Downloads/mysql-administrator$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2074292 kB
MemFree:        350856 kB
Buffers:             0 kB
Cached:        1235424 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         674832 kB
Inactive:       817608 kB
HighTotal:     1178816 kB
HighFree:       138496 kB
LowTotal:       895476 kB
LowFree:        212360 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:              12 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:         306596 kB
Slab:           215188 kB
Committed_AS:   618888 kB
PageTables:       3848 kB
VmallocTotal:   114680 kB
VmallocUsed:     20412 kB
VmallocChunk:    93968 kB

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.9-rc2 (stewart@faith) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-11)) #2 SMP Sun Sep 19 12:38:35 EST 2004

Thank you for your bug report. This issue has been committed to our
source repository of that product and will be incorporated into the
next release.

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