From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:47:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:47:48 -0500 Received: from [194.102.114.109] ([194.102.114.109]:58753 "EHLO linux.dec.com.ro") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 13:47:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 20:48:51 +0200 (EET) From: Kovacs Andrei To: Subject: bug in free or in kernel ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I have just installed the 2.4.14 kernel and I see some strange values showed by free: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 254816 250620 4196 0 2068 165208 -/+ buffers/cache: 83344 171472 Swap: 262544 63264 199280 The system has been working for 2 hours and it is in X. If I know well... if the buffers are smaller than "- buffers", here 83 mb, then the system doesn't work optimally. That shouldn't be a problem but with the 2.4.14 kernel I don't see it growing over 5 mb. I tried adjusting the buffermem parameters in /proc/sys/vm/buffermem but it doesn't exist anymore. I looked in the patches and I saw it has been removed since 2.4.10, but I couldn't find the reason for this there or on the mailing list archives. Also, the freepages file is missing. The system is a P III at 800 MHz and under the 2.4.7 and 2.4.9 kernels all was fine. Also when I try to tar or untar some files, from time to time the system locks up for about 2 or 3 seconds. That didn't happen under 2.4.9. Thanx -- Kovacs Andrei, Network Manager - Digital Electronic Petrosani E-mail: andik@dec.com.ro Phone: +40-93-226563