[Bug 405246] New: Free memory reported by free, vmstat and top is wrong.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=405246 Summary: Free memory reported by free, vmstat and top is wrong. Product: openSUSE 11.0 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: bart.vanassche@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Customer The "free memory -/+ buffers/cache" value as displayed by the free, vmstat and top tools is wrong because these tools do not take the most recently introduced fields of /proc/meminfo into account. An example of the output of free: $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 2060680 566836 1493844 0 16048 265784 -/+ buffers/cache: 285004 1775676 Swap: 2104472 0 2104472 The correct values are on the test system are: $ /usr/bin/awk http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=120496901605830&w=2 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Cyril Hrubis
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Dr. Werner Fink
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