Bug 69151 – weird value of "cached" mem value

Bug 69151 - weird value of "cached" mem value

Summary:	weird value of "cached" mem value

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2002-07-18 08:01 EDT by Mindaugas Riauba
Modified:	2008-08-01 12:22 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:39:46 EDT
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Description Mindaugas Riauba 2002-07-18 08:01:32 EDT

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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


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. flood installed sendmail with e-mail traffic
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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.

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Comment 1 Mindaugas Riauba 2002-07-18 08:03:37 EDT

All available updates applied.

Comment 2 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:39:46 EDT

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/

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