Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2012-01-04 Thread Nico
Hi, I'm coming back on this, as servers with more and more ram appears, the free command show very false values. With 32Gb of ram, just after reboot I have 280MB of ram used (on -/+ buffer/cache line :used) just after the end of updatedb, I can see more than 3GB of ram used (YES 3GB of RAM on

Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2010-01-24 Thread Nico
Hi, Ok, so I did the work myself for those who are interested : before :             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:      33088172    9587560   23500612          0     921836    6832320 -/+ buffers/cache:    1833404   31254768 Swap:     33554424          0  

Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2010-01-17 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:41:35PM +0100, Nicolas Parpandet wrote: The free cmd does not show properly used memory, as you can see, slab is not taken into account, used / buffer cache is a useless information, Hello, It's a big call to say not show properly with anything at all to do with

Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2010-01-17 Thread Nico
Hi, 2010/1/17 Craig Small csm...@debian.org: On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 04:41:35PM +0100, Nicolas Parpandet wrote: The free cmd does not show properly used memory, as you can see, slab is not taken into account, used / buffer cache is a useless information, Hello, It's a big call to say not

Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2010-01-17 Thread Craig Small
tags 565518 upstream thankyou On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:28:19PM +0100, Nico wrote: slab cache usage (after the find/updatedb with a scan of all the filesystem). This kind of memory usage does not reflect user point of view, because as soon as a program request memory, slab cache is reduced

Bug#565518: procps: free does not take slab into account in used - buffers/cache

2010-01-16 Thread Nicolas Parpandet
Package: procps Version: 1:3.2.7-11 Severity: normal Hi, The free cmd does not show properly used memory, as you can see, slab is not taken into account, used / buffer cache is a useless information, for instance on this server : r...@vzb:/etc/apt# tail /dev/zero Processus arrêté