Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:29:21 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:24050 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:29:10 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 21:29:42 -0800 From: Mike Fedyk To: Tom Vier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.13-ac2 weird vm stats Message-ID: <20011030212942.J490@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: Tom Vier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011030224011.A32651@zero> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011030224011.A32651@zero> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - 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/