Bug 69151

Summary: weird value of "cached" mem value
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Mindaugas Riauba <mindaugas>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Mindaugas Riauba 2002-07-18 12:01:32 UTC
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Description of problem:

  Cached value is weird.

# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        514432      60596     453836          0     830632 4294165064
-/+ buffers/cache: -4294935100 4295449532
Swap:       787176          0     787176
# cat /proc/meminfo  
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  526778368 62062592 464715776        0 850567168 18446744072888066048
Swap: 806068224        0 806068224
MemTotal:       514432 kB
MemFree:        453824 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        830632 kB
Cached:       4294165064 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          13612 kB
Inact_dirty:      6536 kB
Inact_clean:     11064 kB
Inact_target:     6240 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514432 kB
LowFree:        453824 kB
SwapTotal:      787176 kB
SwapFree:       787176 kB
Committed_AS:     4280 kB


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. flood installed sendmail with e-mail traffic
2.
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Actual Results:  When root file system was mounted as ext3 kernel crashed. When 
root was mounted as ext2 - just got weird chached value.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mindaugas Riauba 2002-07-18 12:03:37 UTC
All available updates applied.

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:46 UTC
Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/