Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:20:06 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: Weird /proc/meminfo output on 2.4.13-ac5 |
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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:34:49PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 2 Nov 01 at 14:10, Andreas Franck wrote: > > $ cat /proc/meminfo > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > > Mem: 789250048 781295616 7954432 659456 402890752 > > 18446744073478758400 > > Swap: 6744576000 282624 6744293376 > > MemTotal: 770752 kB > > MemFree: 7768 kB > > MemShared: 644 kB > > Buffers: 393448 kB > > Cached: 4294741680 kB <------ This is impossible, i think? :-) > > Problem appeared in my 2.4.13-ac4 yesterday at home too. It happened to > me when I was checking health of my HDD - either during 'dd if=/dev/hde1 > of=/dev/null bs=8M', or during copying all files from VFAT (/dev/hde1) > partition to /dev/null on filesystem level file by file. > > And if we are talking about it, 2.4.13-ac4 here at work reports that > too. But strange thing is that this machine has just 200MB VFAT partition > of no use, and I do not remember that I ever did read from /dev/hd* since > last reboot. Shift-scrolllock does not report any unusual values. > > I'll upgrade to -ac6 and I'll see.
It won't help. You'll need a patch that rik has posted a few days ago.
This problem is for 2.4.13, 2.4.13-acX, and 2.4.14pre*.
Latest pre or ac patches don't fix it.
Latest: pre6 -ac6
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