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Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:30:58 +0100
From: Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.prima.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.14-pre8: 'free' still reports bogus 'cached' value.
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On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 10:59:21AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > It's a bug in the /proc code.  If buffercache pages exceed
> > pagecache pages, `pg_size' flips negative.
> > 
> > There doesn't seem to be any reason to subtract buffermem_pages
> > from page_cache_size - they're independent.
> > 
> 
> Well that was crap, wasn't it?  Wrong kernel.

Hallo Andrew,

I didn't even noticed, because I had no time to test ;o)

But thnks anyway. Maybe - for testing only - one could insert
a BUG() if the cached amount gets negative to get a call trace ?

My expirience in kernel hacking is rather limited.
I just wanted to report it anyway, because I thought it got fixed.

Have a nice Monday,
(at least I hope I will),

Patrick
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