Re: weird memshared value

[Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 06:13:03PM -0300, Roberto Orenstein wrote:
> Hi Cristoph,
> 
> Guess found a bug in the MemShared value that shows up in /proc/meminfo.
> At least it's pretty weird :)
> 
> After a cp kernel_tree new_tree, together with make bzImage, got the 
> following number:
> 
> MemShared:    4294966488 kB
> 
> My system has only 128MB. P-III, kernel 2.4.9-ac16.
> It doesn't harm, but it's way far from my system mem.
> 

I've just come across this myself.  There is a patch on lkml, look for the
thread ~"4gb memshared, cached bigger than memtotal"...

Mike
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