From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19-6.2.1 i686) Description of problem: 86 processes: 83 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 3.2% user, 1.1% system, 95.3% nice, 0.1% idle Mem: 130404K av, 91616K used, 38788K free, 0K shrd, 4260K buff Swap: 128512K av, 20336K used, 108176K free 43252K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 835 folding 20 19 4640 2156 1160 R N 0 97.1 1.6 697:44 fahclient 4124 thompson 1 0 872 872 656 R 0 1.9 0.6 0:00 top 3955 root 0 0 63024 61M 1768 S 0 0.9 48.3 0:11 X rpm -qif /usr/bin/top Name : procps Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.0.6 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 5 Build Date: Tue 07 Mar 2000 12:03:30 PM CST Install date: Fri 03 Nov 2000 04:20:26 PM CST Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com Group : Applications/System Source RPM: procps-2.0.6-5.src.rpm Size : 288372 License: GPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : Utilities for monitoring your system and processes on your system. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run top 2. 3. Additional info:
"free" command appears to have the same problem.
Seems to stem from /proc/meminfo being incorrect....
It seems this is expected behavior, at least in the 2.2.x RedHat patched kernel. 2.4.x dropped shared memory reporting for performance reasons. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38094 ***