Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:30:58 +0100 | From | Patrick Mau <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.14-pre8: 'free' still reports bogus 'cached' value. |
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:59:21AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > It's a bug in the /proc code. If buffercache pages exceed > > pagecache pages, `pg_size' flips negative. > > > > There doesn't seem to be any reason to subtract buffermem_pages > > from page_cache_size - they're independent. > > > > Well that was crap, wasn't it? Wrong kernel.
Hallo Andrew,
I didn't even noticed, because I had no time to test ;o)
But thnks anyway. Maybe - for testing only - one could insert a BUG() if the cached amount gets negative to get a call trace ?
My expirience in kernel hacking is rather limited. I just wanted to report it anyway, because I thought it got fixed.
Have a nice Monday, (at least I hope I will),
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