From: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.prima.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.14-pre8: 'free' still reports bogus 'cached' value.
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:30:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011104213058.A11308@oscar.dorf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011104132238.A14511@oscar.dorf.de> <3BE58886.FBCAEDB5@zip.com.au> <3BE59009.79CBED53@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3BE59009.79CBED53@zip.com.au>
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),
Patrick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-04 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-04 12:22 Patrick Mau
2001-11-04 18:27 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-04 18:59 ` Andrew Morton
2001-11-04 20:30 ` Patrick Mau [this message]
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