diff -urN monit-4.0.org/process/sysdep_LINUX.c monit-4.0/process/sysdep_LINUX.c
--- monit-4.0.org/process/sysdep_LINUX.c	2003-09-08 19:20:44.000000000 +0200
+++ monit-4.0/process/sysdep_LINUX.c	2003-09-08 19:26:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -84,24 +84,38 @@
  *  @file
  */
 
-#define PAGE_TO_KBYTE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT-10
+#define	PAGE_TO_KBYTE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT-10
+#define FREEMEM         "MemFree:"
+#define FREESWAP        "SwapFree:"
 
 int init_process_info_sysdep(void) {
 
-  struct stat buf;
-  
+  int memfd;
+  char buf[1024], *ptr1, *ptr2;
 
-  /* I hope this is okay hack to get the total memsize. (-: */
+  if ((memfd = open("/proc/meminfo", O_RDONLY)) == -1) {
+      return FALSE;
+  }
 
-  if ( stat("/proc/kcore", &buf) != 0 ) {
+  /* read the file */
+  if (read(memfd, buf, sizeof(buf)) < 0) {
+      close(memfd);
+      return FALSE;
+  }
 
-    return FALSE;
+  close(memfd);
+  
+  ptr1 = strstr(buf, FREEMEM);
+  ptr2 = strstr(buf, FREESWAP);
 
+  if (!ptr1 || !ptr2) {
+      return FALSE;
   }
 
-  num_cpus= sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
+  /* we only care about integer values */
+  mem_kbyte_max = atoi(ptr1+strlen(FREEMEM)) /* + atoi(ptr2+strlen(FREESWAP)) */ ;
 
-  mem_kbyte_max = buf.st_size>>10;
+  num_cpus= sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);
 
   return TRUE;