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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 22:35:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
        Andreas Franck <Andreas.Franck@akustik.rwth-aachen.de>,
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Subject: Re: Weird /proc/meminfo output on 2.4.13-ac5
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 07:34:49PM +0000, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> > On  2 Nov 01 at 14:10, Andreas Franck wrote:
> > > $ cat /proc/meminfo
> > > Cached:       4294741680 kB     <------ This is impossible, i think? :-)
> > 
> > I'll upgrade to -ac6 and I'll see.
> 
> It won't help.  You'll need a patch that rik has posted a few days ago.
> 
> This problem is for 2.4.13, 2.4.13-acX, and 2.4.14pre*.

I believe that problem only applied to 2.4.13-acX, and arose because
an inappropriate part of 2.4.13 (relating to blockdev in pagecache) crept
into 2.4.13-acX.  2.4.13 and 2.4.14-preX should not need Rik's patch.

Hugh

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