Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:32:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:32:07 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:13778 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 14:31:50 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:29:19 +0100 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: funny free output with all mem for buffers Message-ID: <20011030192919.A2436@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.1 Lines: 102 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. When making several images of Linux install disks with dd (dd if=/dev/cdrom of=linux.img) I dared to check the mem/cache state: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 513168 510104 3064 992 349720 4294707520 -/+ buffers/cache: -4294547136 4295060304 Swap: 345356 0 345356 See the <0 value ? Strange accounting... Kernel is 2.4.13-ac5, 512Mb of ram. If it is worthy, here are the outputs of /proc/meminfo and slabinfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 525484032 522346496 3137536 1015808 395116544 18446744073370112000 Swap: 353644544 0 353644544 MemTotal: 513168 kB MemFree: 3064 kB MemShared: 992 kB Buffers: 385856 kB Cached: 4294635812 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 324320 kB Inact_dirty: 114476 kB Inact_clean: 1432 kB Inact_target: 104856 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 513168 kB LowFree: 3064 kB SwapTotal: 345356 kB SwapFree: 345356 kB slabinfo - version: 1.1 (SMP) kmem_cache 64 64 244 4 4 1 : 252 126 tcp_tw_bucket 1 40 96 1 1 1 : 252 126 tcp_bind_bucket 130 226 32 2 2 1 : 252 126 tcp_open_request 0 0 64 0 0 1 : 252 126 inet_peer_cache 2 118 64 2 2 1 : 252 126 ip_fib_hash 10 226 32 2 2 1 : 252 126 ip_dst_cache 11 72 160 3 3 1 : 252 126 arp_cache 2 30 128 1 1 1 : 252 126 blkdev_requests 9216 9240 96 231 231 1 : 252 126 journal_head 3933 7800 48 53 100 1 : 252 126 revoke_table 1 253 12 1 1 1 : 252 126 revoke_record 0 0 32 0 0 1 : 252 126 dnotify cache 0 0 20 0 0 1 : 252 126 file lock cache 84 126 92 3 3 1 : 252 126 fasync cache 1 202 16 1 1 1 : 252 126 uid_cache 2 113 32 1 1 1 : 252 126 skbuff_head_cache 353 696 160 29 29 1 : 252 126 sock 271 333 832 37 37 2 : 124 62 sigqueue 116 116 132 4 4 1 : 252 126 kiobuf 0 0 8768 0 0 4 : 0 0 cdev_cache 270 295 64 5 5 1 : 252 126 bdev_cache 7 118 64 2 2 1 : 252 126 mnt_cache 15 118 64 2 2 1 : 252 126 inode_cache 1129 1674 448 186 186 1 : 124 62 dentry_cache 888 3480 128 116 116 1 : 252 126 filp 1693 1720 96 43 43 1 : 252 126 names_cache 3 3 4096 3 3 1 : 60 30 buffer_head 212644 215920 96 5395 5398 1 : 252 126 mm_struct 144 144 160 6 6 1 : 252 126 vm_area_struct 2706 2773 64 46 47 1 : 252 126 fs_cache 236 236 64 4 4 1 : 252 126 files_cache 108 108 416 12 12 1 : 124 62 signal_act 96 96 1312 32 32 1 : 60 30 size-131072(DMA) 0 0 131072 0 0 32 : 0 0 size-131072 0 0 131072 0 0 32 : 0 0 size-65536(DMA) 0 0 65536 0 0 16 : 0 0 size-65536 0 0 65536 0 0 16 : 0 0 size-32768(DMA) 0 0 32768 0 0 8 : 0 0 size-32768 1 1 32768 1 1 8 : 0 0 size-16384(DMA) 0 0 16384 0 0 4 : 0 0 size-16384 7 8 16384 7 8 4 : 0 0 size-8192(DMA) 0 0 8192 0 0 2 : 0 0 size-8192 4 6 8192 4 6 2 : 0 0 size-4096(DMA) 0 0 4096 0 0 1 : 60 30 size-4096 51 51 4096 51 51 1 : 60 30 size-2048(DMA) 0 0 2048 0 0 1 : 60 30 size-2048 36 44 2048 20 22 1 : 60 30 size-1024(DMA) 0 0 1024 0 0 1 : 124 62 size-1024 168 168 1024 42 42 1 : 124 62 size-512(DMA) 0 0 512 0 0 1 : 124 62 size-512 680 680 512 85 85 1 : 124 62 size-256(DMA) 0 0 256 0 0 1 : 252 126 size-256 450 450 256 30 30 1 : 252 126 size-128(DMA) 0 0 128 0 0 1 : 252 126 size-128 923 930 128 31 31 1 : 252 126 size-64(DMA) 0 0 64 0 0 1 : 252 126 size-64 566 767 64 13 13 1 : 252 126 size-32(DMA) 0 0 32 0 0 1 : 252 126 size-32 1058 2599 32 23 23 1 : 252 126 -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Mandrake Linux release 8.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.13-ac5-beo #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 00:10:00 CET 2001 i686 - 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/