Re: weird memshared value

Mike Fedyk
2001-10-03T21:27:37Z

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:13:03PM -0300, Roberto Orenstein wrote:
> Hi Cristoph,
>
> Guess found a bug in the MemShared value that shows up in /proc/meminfo.
> At least it's pretty weird :)
>
> After a cp kernel_tree new_tree, together with make bzImage, got the
> following number:
>
> MemShared: 4294966488 kB
>
> My system has only 128MB. P-III, kernel 2.4.9-ac16.
> It doesn't harm, but it's way far from my system mem.
>

I've just come across this myself. There is a patch on lkml, look for the
thread ~"4gb memshared, cached bigger than memtotal"...

Mike