Re: Problem with buffers in pre-patch-2.3.11-1.

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:20:23 -0400 (EDT)

this behavior used to be caused by a race in fs/buffer.c, but i thought it
had been fixed in 2.3.9/10 when the buffer cache was threaded. what were
you doing on the machine during this time? i haven't seen the problem on
the most recent development kernels.

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote:
> I get this output from ``free'' on my system after about 26 hours of
> uptime:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 31000 27124 3876 11160 4191696 21216
> -/+ buffers/cache: 8516 22484
> Swap: 98780 5032 93748
>
> It seems that the buffers value has run amuck.
>
> Here is the output from ``uname -a'':
>
> Linux hafnium.nkbj.dk 2.3.11 #1 lør jul 10 15:16:50 CEST 1999 i486 unknown
>
> Am I the only one to have observed such behaviour?
>
> Please CC any answers to me.

- Chuck Lever

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