Long time IRIX admin...Long time believer in XFS...First time on this
mailing list... :-)
My question is regarding a i686 RH7.2 system. I recently installed
the RedHat 7.2 distribution with XFS-1.0.2 support. Everything went
perfectly. No problems with the default 2.4.9 kernel. Then I tuned
(compiled) 2.4.9 with only my server's drivers. No problems. Then I
downloaded the 2.4.14 kernel. Tuned it and compiled it with the same
parameters as the 2.4.9 kernel. Suddenly, free/top (and other procps
type apps) reports the following:
kernel 2.4.14 and 2.4.16:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 513104 50428 462676 0 0 30820
-/+ buffers/cache: 19608 493496
Swap: 530136 0 530136
[root@thunder][/root]# ls -al /proc/sys/vm
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 .
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 bdflush
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 kswapd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 max-readahead
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 min-readahead
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 overcommit_memory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 page-cluster
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 pagebuf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:12 pagetable_cache
Yet if I boot back to 2.4.9, /proc/sys/vm once again shows more parameters
(specifically the buffers parameter).
kernel 2.4.9:
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 .
dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 bdflush
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 buffermem
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 freepages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 kswapd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 overcommit_memory
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 page-cluster
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 pagebuf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 pagecache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 10 23:28 pagetable_cache
Does anybody know what's up with the buffers and other things missing from
/proc/sys/vm?
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