Re: Insanely high "Cached" value

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
16 Nov 2001 10:50:17 -0500


On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 04:54, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> Hmm. Are you sure it is ext3 only? I see the same (coming and going, no
> real harm) on 2.4.13-ac4+preempt without having EXT3 enabled. Also
> happens with 2.4.13 plain.

It is not preempt-kernel's fault. There are two separate bugs, one in
ext3 and one in the cache reporting in -ac series. Newer kernels fix
both problems.

2.4.13-ac7 and 2.4.15-pre5 are not affected ... 2.4.15-pre5 is probably
ideal, it merged ext3, too.

Robert Love

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