Cached accounting problem [was: funny free output with all mem for buffers]

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:29:19PM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> When making several images of Linux install disks with dd
> (dd if=/dev/cdrom of=linux.img) I dared to check the mem/cache state:
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        513168     510104       3064        992     349720 4294707520
> -/+ buffers/cache: -4294547136 4295060304
> Swap:       345356          0     345356
> 

I have this too on my
vmlinuz-2.4.13freeswan-1.91+ac5+preempt+netdev_random+vm_freeswap 
kernel

The previous kernel,
vmlinuz-2.4.12-ac5+acct-entropy+preempt+netdev-ramdom+vm-free-swapcache
didn't do this.

Has anyone seen this with 2.4.13-ac4?