From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) 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 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. flood installed sendmail with e-mail traffic 2. 3. 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:
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