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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
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To: Andreas Franck <Andreas.Franck@akustik.rwth-aachen.de>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 19:34:49 MET-1
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Subject: Re: Weird /proc/meminfo output on 2.4.13-ac5
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On  2 Nov 01 at 14:10, Andreas Franck wrote:
> $ cat /proc/meminfo
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  789250048 781295616  7954432   659456 402890752
> 18446744073478758400
> Swap: 6744576000   282624 6744293376
> MemTotal:       770752 kB
> MemFree:          7768 kB
> MemShared:         644 kB
> Buffers:        393448 kB
> Cached:       4294741680 kB     <------ This is impossible, i think? :-)

Problem appeared in my 2.4.13-ac4 yesterday at home too. It happened to 
me when I was checking health of my HDD - either during 'dd if=/dev/hde1 
of=/dev/null bs=8M', or during copying all files from VFAT (/dev/hde1) 
partition to /dev/null on filesystem level file by file. 

And if we are talking about it, 2.4.13-ac4 here at work reports that
too. But strange thing is that this machine has just 200MB VFAT partition
of no use, and I do not remember that I ever did read from /dev/hd* since
last reboot. Shift-scrolllock does not report any unusual values. 

I'll upgrade to -ac6 and I'll see.
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                
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