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authorXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-05-07 12:25:47 +0800
committerXi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>2022-05-07 12:25:47 +0800
commitb0b37b68526c814b4406220e4d4aea17c5ed672d (patch)
treee7e2b3ce1c7349900a4ce59f37e0d439b8fcc0e8 /chapter08
parent6edc3b46e0efc37e608330ac6e61091b94098c55 (diff)
procps: update testsuite status
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diff --git a/chapter08/procps.xml b/chapter08/procps.xml
index 5a32b31b8..d28ac7820 100644
--- a/chapter08/procps.xml
+++ b/chapter08/procps.xml
@@ -83,8 +83,15 @@ make check</userinput></screen>
<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>