Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 23:04:39 -0600
From: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: andrea@e-mind.com
Subject: Insanely high "Cached" value
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My system has been running a little over twelve days now, and I just
noticed that the "Cached" value in both 'free' and /proc/meminfo is
insanely high.  This wasn't the case the last time I checked, which was
probably a day ago.

Just before checking it this time, I ran a "du -s *" in /usr, which
generated a lot of I/O, as it to be expected.  Perhaps the large amount
of I/O has uncovered a bug of some sort?

This is kernel 2.4.13 (hopefully it's not something that's already been
reported and fixed; I haven't seen it if is has) patched with ext3, kdb,
lm_sensors, and the pre-empt patch.  Seems likely to be only a simple VM
problem, however, and an asthetic one at that.
-- 
-Steven
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