Bug 106836 - Can't find /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
Summary: Can't find /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 9
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-11 14:35 UTC by Vidar Haugsvær
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-10-14 23:41:46 UTC
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Description Vidar Haugsvær 2003-10-11 14:35:34 UTC 
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Description of problem:
/proc/sys/vm/buffermem does not exist.

[root@test root]# cat /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
cat: /proc/sys/vm/buffermem: No such file or directory

[root@test root]# grep "/proc " /proc/mounts
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0

[root@test root]# uname -a
Linux test.gs.bergen.hl.no 2.4.20-20.9smp #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 11:32:15 EDT 2003
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-20.9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. cat /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
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Additional info:
Comment 1 Vidar Haugsvær 2003-10-11 16:51:19 UTC 
Actually, it's the kernel-smp-2.4.20-20.9 package
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-10-14 23:41:46 UTC 
This went away with the large VM update in 2.4.10
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