Your message dated Fri, 18 Sep 2015 21:52:11 +1000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: Bug#798994: procps: [free] /usr/bin/free no longer shows +/- buffers/cache has caused the Debian Bug report #798994, regarding procps: [free] /usr/bin/free no longer shows +/- buffers/cache to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.10-4 Severity: wishlist Since procps 3.3.10 the /usr/bin/free utility is missing the "+/- buffers/cache" line. Downgrading to 3.3.9 fixes the problem. -8<- % free total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 16273860 11579284 548640 30532 4145936 4538364 Swap: 0 0 0 -8<- Is it possible to get the old behavior back? Why has it been changed? -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages procps depends on: ii initscripts 2.88dsf-59.2 ii libc6 2.19-19 ii libncurses5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libncursesw5 6.0+20150810-1 ii libprocps4 2:3.3.10-4 ii libtinfo5 6.0+20150810-1 ii lsb-base 9.20150826 Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 22.21-2.1 procps suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 10:17:09PM +0300, Antti Kultanen wrote: > Since procps 3.3.10 the /usr/bin/free utility is missing the > "+/- buffers/cache" line. Downgrading to 3.3.9 fixes the problem. This was intentional because the values showing in old free were incorrect. The problem is that Linux memory management has evolved and free hadn't kept up. slabs were not considered properly for example. The long answer is found in [1] - Craig [1] http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/kb-main-available-etc,27 -- Craig Small (@smallsees) http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5
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