From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andrea@e-mind.com
Subject: Re: Insanely high "Cached" value
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 21:17:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BECB84D.9D8341ED@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011109230439.A13013@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org>
Steven Walter wrote:
>
> My system has been running a little over twelve days now, and I just
> noticed that the "Cached" value in both 'free' and /proc/meminfo is
> insanely high. This wasn't the case the last time I checked, which was
> probably a day ago.
>
> Just before checking it this time, I ran a "du -s *" in /usr, which
> generated a lot of I/O, as it to be expected. Perhaps the large amount
> of I/O has uncovered a bug of some sort?
>
> This is kernel 2.4.13 (hopefully it's not something that's already been
> reported and fixed; I haven't seen it if is has) patched with ext3, kdb,
> lm_sensors, and the pre-empt patch. Seems likely to be only a simple VM
> problem, however, and an asthetic one at that.
It's an ext3 bug. Harmless, fixed in the (ext3-enriched) 2.4.15-pre2.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-10 5:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-10 5:04 Insanely high "Cached" value Steven Walter
2001-11-10 5:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2001-11-16 9:54 Martin Knoblauch
2001-11-16 15:50 ` Robert Love
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