reporting wrong memory info in 2.2.x (more info)

System Administrator (admin@intergrafix.net)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:05:21 -0500 (EST)

some more info I found out. friggin' weird. I graph mem free with MRTG.
usually it shows like 3-4MB free all the time. since 10am yesterday until
now, when i rebooted with 2.2.3, it's been showing 50-100MB free
(fluctuating).
Also, here's the kicker, one of our web domain customers emailed me saying
that his cgis have been reporting "out of memory" errors and that they
started at about, you guessed it, 10am.
more memory free, memory errors.
less memory free, no memory errors.

what the heck?

-Cygnus

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, System Administrator wrote:

>
> just booted kernel 2.2.3 SMP. run "free" and I get this:
> [root@cygnus admin]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 257940 254908 3032 460008 108192 23952
> -/+ buffers/cache: 122764 135176
> Swap: 40156 0 40156
>
> the "shared" column being what's wrong with this picture.
> top reports the same thing.
> happens in 2.2.2 and 2.2.1 also.
>
> running procinfo 16, procps v1.2.9 (even though ps --version says 1.2.7)
> gcc 2.7.2.1, libc 5.4.38
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> -Cygnus
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