Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jul 1999 15:20:23 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: Problem with buffers in pre-patch-2.3.11-1. |
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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.
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