2.5.6 Swap reporting incorect values (was: 2.5.6 Swap weirdness)

Petr.Titera@whitesoft.cz
Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:14:31 +0100


Not a issue. I checked free and it reads values from /proc/meminfo

[owl@chudak owl]$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used
Priority
/dev/hda5 partition 88664 148 -1
[owl@chudak owl]$ cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 62968 kB
MemFree: 9324 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 7396 kB
Cached: 23608 kB
SwapCached: 148 kB
Active: 14908 kB
Inactive: 31604 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 62968 kB
LowFree: 9324 kB
SwapTotal: 88812 kB
SwapFree: 88664 kB
[owl@chudak owl]$


Mark Hahn
<hahn@physics.mc To: <Petr.Titera@whitesoft.cz>
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10.03.2002 18:22 Subject: Re: 2.5.6 Swap weirdness


> in linux kernel 2.5.6 swap statistics are displayed incorrectly.
Used
> space is added to total swap size and not subtracted from free space. See
> attached output

don't you merely mean that 'free' is buggy? not a kernel issue.

>
>
> [root@nevskij proc]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257348 159748 97600 0 9328 41004
> -/+ buffers/cache: 109416 147932
> Swap: 152800 24320 128480
> [root@nevskij proc]# cat /proc/swaps
> Filename Type Size Used
> Priority
> /dev/hda5 partition 128480 24316
-1
> [root@nevskij proc]#
>
> Petr Titera
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