Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 14:03:35 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Memory accounting problem in 2.4.13, 2.4.14pre, and possibly 2.4.14 |
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Hello,
I am trying to track down a memory accounting problem I've seen ever since I tried a 2.4.13 based kernel. Specifically I've noticed an overflow for the "Cached" entry in /proc/meminfo, but also the numbers don't add up to the total memory count. Shouldn't they add up? If they should, I haven't seen one that does....
I first noticed it on: 2.4.13freeswan-1.91+ac5+preempt+netdev_random+vm_freeswap 2.4.14-pre6+preempt+netdev_random+ext3_0.9.14-2414p5
I thought it may be preempt so I tried: 2.4.14-pre8+netdev_random-p7+xsched+ext3_0.9.14-2414p8+elevator
But I still get the same problem with "Cached".
Now I'm trying to see if it could be ext3 with: 2.4.14-ext3-2.4-0.9.14-2414p8
And I haven't noticed the problem after 16 hours uptime. Sometimes it would show earlier, or later.
>From current (2.4.14-ext3-2.4-0.9.14-2414p8) kernel: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 261443584 254337024 7106560 0 58957824 76398592 Swap: 199815168 1228800 198586368 MemTotal: 255316 kB MemFree: 6940 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 57576 kB Cached: 73408 kB SwapCached: 1200 kB Active: 65048 kB Inactive: 138040 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 255316 kB LowFree: 6940 kB SwapTotal: 195132 kB SwapFree: 193932 kB
Subtracted from MemTotal should = 0: MemFree: 6940 kB Active: 65048 kB Inactive: 138040 kB = 45288 kB remaining
Shouldn't these numbers add up to MemTotal?
$ dpkg -l "*gcc*"|grep ii ii gcc 2.95.4-8 The GNU C compiler. ii gcc-2.95 2.95.4-0.01100 The GNU C compiler.
On Debian Sid.
I can provide more information upon request...
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