Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:35:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:35:32 -0500 Received: from [62.245.135.174] ([62.245.135.174]:45956 "EHLO mail.teraport.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 02:35:17 -0500 Message-ID: <3BDE5853.540BCCA5@TeraPort.de> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:35:47 +0100 From: Martin Knoblauch Organization: TeraPort GmbH X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.13-ac4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Very high "cached" value X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/30/2001 08:35:48 AM, Serialize by Router on lotus/Teraport/de(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/30/2001 08:35:54 AM, Serialize complete at 10/30/2001 08:35:54 AM Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, running 2.4.13-ac4+preempt, I found a rather strange xosview display this morning, complaining about a negative field. Inspection of /proc/meminfo gives a pretty unlikely value for "cached": /home/martink> cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 327233536 323653632 3579904 6352896 131874816 18446744073682300928 Swap: 674455552 475136 673980416 MemTotal: 319564 kB MemFree: 3496 kB MemShared: 6204 kB Buffers: 128784 kB Cached: 4294940220 kB SwapCached: 464 kB Active: 103016 kB Inact_dirty: 126400 kB Inact_clean: 1540 kB Inact_target: 65508 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 319564 kB LowFree: 3496 kB SwapTotal: 658648 kB SwapFree: 658184 kB This is on a Toshiba 7200 Notebook with 320 MB and about twice as much swap. Martin -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch | email: Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de TeraPort GmbH | Phone: +49-89-510857-309 C+ITS | Fax: +49-89-510857-111 http://www.teraport.de | Mobile: +49-170-4904759 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/