Re: freepages in proc doesn't work right.

Russell Coker - mailing lists account (bofh@snoopy.virtual.net.au)
Mon, 21 Jul 97 16:16:51 +1100

>Noticed this in 2.0.30:

>The command to set the "freepages" file in /proc/sys/vm used to work like
>thus:

>echo 100 150 200 > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

>Now, what you get is something like:

>200 96 128

>where 96 and 128 are the originals.

>I don't know when this changed, but the problem seems
>to be that it doesn't like spaces in the input.

I noticed the same thing in 2.1.3x. I just do:
echo "100 150 200" > /proc/sys/vm/freepages

It works for me.

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