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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> |