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Bug ID: 6840305
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Synopsis Discrepancy in system memory details (when 4G or greater) reported by JVM and Windows OS
Category hotspot:runtime_system
Reported Against
Release Fixed , 6u16-rev(b02) (Bug ID:2178050) , hs16(b08) (Bug ID:2179571) , 6u18(b01) (Bug ID:2181942) , 7(b71) (Bug ID:2182199)
State 11-Closed, Will Not Fix, bug
Priority: 2-High
Related Bugs
Submit Date 12-MAY-2009
Description
Customer seeing a discrepancy in system memory details shown in hs_err log and the actual memory in the win2k8 server.

Actual RAM size  :4GB  but in hs_err it is  physical 2097151k(157596k free)
Actual Virtual Memory      :8GB but in hs_err it is swap 4194303k(3189640k free)
Posted Date : 2009-05-12 21:42:36.0
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
GlobalMemoryStatus() does not report correct memory usage when the system has more than 4gb of RAM. GlobalMemoryStatusEx() should be used in place of GlobalMemoryStatus().
Posted Date : 2009-06-17 06:21:24.0

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-rt/hotspot/rev/8c79517a9300
Posted Date : 2009-07-17 14:40:21.0
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Submitted On 21-AUG-2009
Jess_Holle
So this was fixed according to the OpenJDK link given -- yet it is marked as "will not fix"?



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