Why does lshw command showing wrong memory information in Azure and Hyper-V instance with the "RAM size" > 32 GB?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • lshw command showing incorrect memory information where the system has 192GB of RAM.
less 0070-lshw_json_C_memory | grep size
    "size" : 65536,
    "size" : 9790498482946048, < bytes >   <<<-----  9.7 Pib
        "size" : 1073741824
        "size" : 1958092821495808
        "size" : 1958092822544384
        "size" : 1958092823592960
        "size" : 1958092824641536
        "size" : 1958092825690112
        "size" : 33291239424

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V
  • RAM SIZE > 32 GB

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