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			| Debian 6.0.4 free -m is very bizarre [message #45416] | Sun, 04 March 2012 21:33  |  
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					|  raindog308 Messages: 1
 Registered: March 2012
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	| I have an OpenVZ container running Debian.  1GB provisioned, 2GB burst.  Under Debian 6.0.3 (32-bit), free -m reported 2GB available and something like 600m in use, which is about right. 
 Under 6.0.4, free -m is nuts:
 
 
 
 # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         10984      10825        159          0         99       3885
-/+ buffers/cache:       6840       4144
Swap:         3813         62       3751
# free -g
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            10         10          0          0          0          3
-/+ buffers/cache:          6          4
Swap:            3          0          3
# head -n 5 /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:     11248556 kB
MemFree:         76448 kB
Buffers:        102780 kB
Cached:        4030920 kB
SwapCached:       2100 kB
# head /proc/user_beancounters
Version: 2.5
       uid  resource                     held              maxheld              barrier                limit              failcnt
    14276:  kmemsize                  7145977             20491552           2147483646           2147483646                    0
            lockedpages                     0                20736               999999               999999                    0
            privvmpages                117642               313044               524288               524288               115385
            shmpages                    74166               165152               262144               262144                    0
            dummy                           0                    0                    0                    0                    0
            numproc                        32                  237                  500                  500                    0
            physpages                   68572               290590                    0               262144                    0
            vmguarpages                     0                    0               262144           2147483647                    0
 All I did was apt-get update && apt-get upgrade.  I've done OS updates before without an issue...and nothing has changed with the host.
 
 I'm just a customer - not an OpenVZ admin.
 
 Ideas?
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