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#154593 - 2006-01-05 02:47 PM Bug in MemorySize() ?
weiali weiali Lurker Registered: 2002-06-01 Posts: 1 Loc: Finland	After updating kiXtart from 4.21 to version 4.51 in our login scripts, the memorysize() function started behaving funny. We have some machines that have 256MB of physical RAM on them, but the report shows huge increase in memory size. This doesn't happen to all machines, but it's rather consistent once wrong memory size is reported. It would be a nice and cheap upgrade if that's true. Here're some extracts from our inventroy-report (All the machines below have 256MB RAM, and use our standard XPSP2 image): ----------- Code: $Memory = MemorySize(0) ? $Memory + "MB" ----------- Report: 1: Machine type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz@1993MHZ, Memory 253 MB 2: Machine type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz@1993MHZ, Memory 253 MB 3: Machine type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz@1993MHZ, Memory 1777 MB 4: Machine type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz@1993MHZ, Memory 2287 MB 5: Machine type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz@1993MHZ, Memory 1777 MB Is it a bug?
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#154594 - 2006-01-05 06:29 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yep. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#154595 - 2006-01-05 07:21 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Allen Allen KiX Supporter Registered: 2003-04-19 Posts: 4537 Loc: USA	Quite a few threads have been generated on this topic... one workaround is to use the following UDF: Memory()
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#154596 - 2006-01-05 11:27 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yes, but think this is different Allen. memsize has always been reporting something odd but now he says that it goes haywire with the new versions. so, something has changed. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#154597 - 2006-01-06 12:13 AM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11620 Loc: CA	Well don't know about a 256MB machine, but on a 2GB machine both macro and udf show about the same. macro = 2038 udf = 2040
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#154598 - 2006-02-21 11:19 AM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
PRandal PRandal Fresh Scripter Registered: 2002-07-17 Posts: 28	On one of our servers... macro = 2048 udf = 3328 Something definitely wrong, there.
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#154599 - 2006-02-21 08:17 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
NTDOC NTDOC Administrator Registered: 2000-07-28 Posts: 11620 Loc: CA	The Macro only supports Memory up to 2GB in size. For larger memory sizes you would need to use the UDF.
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#154600 - 2006-02-25 03:46 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	yes, the macro should be FINALLY updated. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#154601 - 2006-04-17 11:55 AM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Ruud van Velsen Ruud van Velsen Developer Registered: 1999-05-06 Posts: 391 Loc: Amsterdam, The Netherlands	Thanks for the report. This function is known to return bogus results on systems with more than 2GB of memory (as a result of a quirk in the underlying API). I haven't seen any problems on systems with <2GB and can't reproduce the reported issue, I'm afraid. Ruud
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#154602 - 2006-04-17 01:55 PM Re: Bug in MemorySize() ?
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	k, took a quick search and found this: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;%5BLN%5D;888664 Quote: After you install Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 on a computer that is running the Finnish version of Microsoft Windows XP, Total physical memory that appears in System Properties may not be correct or may not appear. could you check on those failing machines if also the my computer info is wrong? _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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