Re: 2.4.13-ac2 weird vm stats

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Tom Vier wrote:
> noticed this while in x. shortly afterwards (less than a minute), the stats
> returned to normal, except it was reporting little to no, or possible still
> negative cache (couldn't tell at the time, was reading from xosview). the
> vmstat output below may have been generated just after it returned to
> normal.
> 
>  10:20pm  up 4 days, 35 min,  1 user,  load average: 2.47, 2.18, 2.06
> 51 processes: 49 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.6% user,  0.2% system, 99.0% nice,  0.0% idle
> Mem:  510296K av, 506208K used,   4088K free,      0K shrd, 139728K buff
> Swap:  98272K av,      0K used,  98272K free                 -9552K cached
> 
>    procs                      memory    swap          io     system         cpu
>  r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache  si  so    bi    bo   in    cs  us  sy  id
>  1  0  1      0 127368 131792   3248   0   0     1     6   11     8   3   0   0
> 
> 
> Linux zero 2.4.13-ac2 #1 Fri Oct 26 22:24:29 EDT 2001 alpha unknown

I'm seeing this on 2.4.13-ac5 too.

Check out the thread started as "funny free output with all mem for buffers"
 then changed to "Cached accounting problem" by me...
 
This seems to be happening on 2.4.13, and -ac kernels.

Mike