Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:04:39 -0600 | From | Steven Walter <> | Subject | Insanely high "Cached" value |
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My system has been running a little over twelve days now, and I just noticed that the "Cached" value in both 'free' and /proc/meminfo is insanely high. This wasn't the case the last time I checked, which was probably a day ago.
Just before checking it this time, I ran a "du -s *" in /usr, which generated a lot of I/O, as it to be expected. Perhaps the large amount of I/O has uncovered a bug of some sort?
This is kernel 2.4.13 (hopefully it's not something that's already been reported and fixed; I haven't seen it if is has) patched with ext3, kdb, lm_sensors, and the pre-empt patch. Seems likely to be only a simple VM problem, however, and an asthetic one at that. -- -Steven In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. -- George Orwell Those that would give up a necessary freedom for temporary safety deserver neither freedom nor safety. -- Ben Franklin He's alive. He's alive! Oh, that fellow at RadioShack said I was mad! Well, who's mad now? -- Montgomery C. Burns - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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