> On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>
> > Thanks to everyone who worked on this. By the way, I have asked Albert
> > Calahan, the procps maintainer, to fix the free/top/vmstat tools such
> > that these take recently added /proc/meminfo fields into account and
> > display correct values on recent 2.6 kernels. See also
> >
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9991 and
> >
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=120496901605830&w=2.
>
> Be aware that some distros have hacked their meminfo (proc and
> /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo) output to be more compatible with
> recent 2.6 kernels but not updated to the new ZVC counter scheme. On those
> kernels (<2.6.17) counters may show weird values and the sum of the per
> node counters in sysfs may not yield the same amount shown in
> /proc/meminfo.
