Re: pre-2.0.31 swap usage screwed

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Wed, 28 May 1997 17:32:10 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 28 May 1997, Jon Lewis wrote:

> What's wrong with this picture?:
>
> yoda:~# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 127896 121840 6056 56956 6272 27984
> -/+ buffers: 87584 40312
> Swap: 165880 2097151 165884
> yoda:~# cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 130965504 125546496 5419008 60973056 6422528 28762112
> Swap: 169861120 4294963200 169865216
> MemTotal: 127896 kB
> MemFree: 5292 kB
> MemShared: 59544 kB
> Buffers: 6272 kB
> Cached: 28088 kB
> SwapTotal: 165880 kB
> SwapFree: 165884 kB
>
> This is pre-patch 2.0.31 + Eric's TCP fixes + kmalloc fds patch in a dual
> P150 running a non-SMP kernel. Uptime 13d20:48.
>
> It looks like swap used has somehow gone negative by 4096 bytes, and free
> from proc-ps 1.01 is printf'ing the unsigned ints as signed ints.

Whatever happened, it's getting further. Now I'm using -8kb of swap.

yoda:~# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127896 122936 4960 55460 14132 20904
-/+ buffers: 87900 39996
Swap: 165880 2097151 165888

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