2001-10-31 03:40:09

by Tom Vier

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Subject: 2.4.13-ac2 weird vm stats

noticed this while in x. shortly afterwards (less than a minute), the stats
returned to normal, except it was reporting little to no, or possible still
negative cache (couldn't tell at the time, was reading from xosview). the
vmstat output below may have been generated just after it returned to
normal.

10:20pm up 4 days, 35 min, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 2.18, 2.06
51 processes: 49 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.6% user, 0.2% system, 99.0% nice, 0.0% idle
Mem: 510296K av, 506208K used, 4088K free, 0K shrd, 139728K buff
Swap: 98272K av, 0K used, 98272K free -9552K cached

procs memory swap io system cpu
r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
1 0 1 0 127368 131792 3248 0 0 1 6 11 8 3 0 0


Linux zero 2.4.13-ac2 #1 Fri Oct 26 22:24:29 EDT 2001 alpha unknown

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2001-10-31 05:29:30

by Mike Fedyk

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Subject: Re: 2.4.13-ac2 weird vm stats

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote:
> noticed this while in x. shortly afterwards (less than a minute), the stats
> returned to normal, except it was reporting little to no, or possible still
> negative cache (couldn't tell at the time, was reading from xosview). the
> vmstat output below may have been generated just after it returned to
> normal.
>
> 10:20pm up 4 days, 35 min, 1 user, load average: 2.47, 2.18, 2.06
> 51 processes: 49 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.6% user, 0.2% system, 99.0% nice, 0.0% idle
> Mem: 510296K av, 506208K used, 4088K free, 0K shrd, 139728K buff
> Swap: 98272K av, 0K used, 98272K free -9552K cached
>
> procs memory swap io system cpu
> r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
> 1 0 1 0 127368 131792 3248 0 0 1 6 11 8 3 0 0
>
>
> Linux zero 2.4.13-ac2 #1 Fri Oct 26 22:24:29 EDT 2001 alpha unknown

I'm seeing this on 2.4.13-ac5 too.

Check out the thread started as "funny free output with all mem for buffers"
then changed to "Cached accounting problem" by me...

This seems to be happening on 2.4.13, and -ac kernels.

Mike