Changeset 100ca4e for chapter08/procps.xml

Timestamp:

05/10/2022 11:06:10 AM (2 years ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

xry111/clfs-ng

Children:

f7c33596

Parents:

dd7a29e (diff), 3d722b9 (diff)
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Message:

Merge branch 'trunk' into xry111/clfs-ng

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• chapter08/procps.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter08/procps.xml

@@ -84 +84 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Five tests related to pkill are known to fail due to a problem
-    with tests that were not updated.</para>
+    <!-- It's because "free -v" shows "used" greater than "total", and
+         a negative "free" for "Comm" line.  The "total" value is from
+         "CommitLimit" in /proc/meminfo, which is the limit for one process.
+         But the "used" value is from "Committed_AS" in the same file,
+         which is the total commited virtual memory space of all processes.
+         I'll make a report to upstream anyway.  -->
+    <para>One test named <filename>free with commit</filename>
+    may fail if some applications with a custom memory allocator (for
+    example, JVM and Web browsers) are running on the host distro.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>