Changeset b0b37b6 for chapter08/procps.xml

Timestamp:

05/07/2022 04:25:47 AM (2 years ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

0341ecc

Parents:

6edc3b4

Message:

procps: update testsuite status

File:

• 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>FAIL: free with commit</filename>
+    may fail if some applications with a custom memory allocator (for
+    example, JVM and Web browsers) is running on the host distro.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>