After seeing this I decided to take a look at a box I recently put
2.4.13+ext3(-pre6 + manually fixed .rej) and I got this:

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  125820928 121167872  4653056        0 295002112
18446744073458835456
Swap: 536117248  4866048 531251200
MemTotal:       122872 kB
MemFree:          4544 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        288088 kB
Cached:       18446744073709305672 kB
SwapCached:       1104 kB
Active:          28832 kB
Inactive:        14416 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       122872 kB
LowFree:          4544 kB
SwapTotal:      523552 kB
SwapFree:       518800 kB

I only have 1 ext3 filesystem yet, because I was stress-testing the box
before I put it into real use.

/dev/sdb2     ext3     16G   33M   16G   1% /mnt/tmp

This box is a 167Mhz Ultra 1, 128M memory 512M swap. I ran bonnie++ on
the ext3 partition for about 15 hours and then let it sit idle for about
the same before I noticed this.


On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 16:08, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My gateway/firewall/mailserver machine has been running 2.4.13 for a day
> or so now.  Its basically a stock Linus kernel + ext3-0.9.13 patch (for
> -pre6, with the rej fixed).
> 
> I'm getting this in /proc/meminfo:
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  130179072 117489664 12689408        0 46854144    69632
> Swap: 1073987584 10907648 1063079936
> MemTotal:       127128 kB
> MemFree:         12392 kB
> MemShared:           0 kB
> Buffers:         45756 kB
> Cached:       4294965116 kB
> SwapCached:       2248 kB
> Active:          11392 kB
> Inactive:        36784 kB
> HighTotal:           0 kB
> HighFree:            0 kB
> LowTotal:       127128 kB
> LowFree:         12392 kB
> SwapTotal:     1048816 kB
> SwapFree:      1038164 kB
> 
> 
> Needless to say, this is unexpected.  I do have 128MB of RAM and a gig
> of swap, but I certainly don't expect to see 4TB of cached stuff...
> 
> I have a number of ext3 filesystems:
> 
> /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0
> /proc /proc proc rw 0 0
> /dev/hda3 /home ext3 rw 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /var ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
> 
> /var is data=journal, the rest are data=ordered.  /var also has a number
> of files and directories with the sync bit set.
> 
> The machine doesn't seem to be misbehaving at all, and there's nothing
> unusual in the kernel log.  It has not been under any particular load.
> 
> I have another machine here running 2.4.13+ext3 for a few days now, and
> it has no oddities.
> 
> UPDATE: now that I look at it again, it has fixed itself.  How odd.
> 
> 	J
> ----
> 

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