free/cache/buffer horror in 2.4.13

Miroslav Zubcic (mvz@crol.net)
31 Oct 2001 05:40:13 +0100


I apologize for posting this if this is something "normal". But i
noticed strange behaviour in 2.4.13

Machine:
intel PIII 500Mhz, 256Mb RAM kernel 2.4.13

I'm using linux almost 5 years from now, and I never seen such weird
thing. Machine is up 2-3 days after compiling kernel, and all was OK
but now I see ... this:

(root){crolvax}[mail]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255768 146392 109376 0 75376 4294953228
-/+ buffers/cache: -4294882212 4295137980
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Swap: 530104 100612 429492

(root){crolvax}[mail]# cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 261906432 150003712 111902720 0 77258752 1638400
Swap: 542826496 103010304 439816192
MemTotal: 255768 kB
MemFree: 109280 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 75448 kB
Cached: 4294953236 kB
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
SwapCached: 15660 kB
Active: 5932 kB
Inactive: 71116 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255768 kB
LowFree: 109280 kB
SwapTotal: 530104 kB
SwapFree: 429508 kB

(root){crolvax}[mail]# xosview
Warning: meter MemMeter had a negative value of -4207443968.000000 for field 0
Warning: meter MemMeter had a negative value of -4207448064.000000 for field 0
Warning: meter MemMeter had a negative value of -4207448064.000000 for field 0

Is this behaviour normal? Log files and syslog are not reporting
anything about that.

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