Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1999-34,: Re: shared/buffers/cached and 2.3.15pre3

# Re: shared/buffers/cached and 2.3.15pre3

Helge Hafting (helge.hafting@c2i.net)
Sat, 28 Aug 1999 00:01:30 +0200

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> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 127504 78172 49332 0 384
> 39772
> -/+ buffers/cache: 38016 89488
> Swap: 130044 0 130044
>
> Is that normal now? Shared used to be like 20 meg and buffers the same
> and cached about 40 meg. Buffers is pending writes I thought. I don't
> know what the rest is.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 30800 30064 736 0 1696 10256
-/+ buffers/cache: 18112 12688
Swap: 65488 2784 62704

Please correct if any of this is wrong.
There was a big change in buffer & cache handling in 2.3.7. (This
broke FAT too for a while.) I believe the pending writes are
in "cache" instead of buffers now, the buffers are only used for
metadata. So expect less buffers in use than before.

I don't know about the "shared" stuff, a problem with reporting
perhaps? Shared memory still works...

Helge Hafting

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