[ale] Free is not showing me correct used memory

[Chris Fowler]

It's an old system.  Some of the hardware is only i586.
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From: Raylynn Knight <seca900rider at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2020 5:40 AM
To: Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Subject: Re: [ale] Free is not showing me correct used memory



> On Aug 21, 2020, at 8:16 PM, Chris Fowler via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> I've ran into an issue on a device which runs out of memory, but it refuses to panic on OOM.  This creates a DOS affect.  No SSH to the device, but I am still able to ping it. After reboot messages in syslog show the device has ran out of memory.  Kernel is 2.,6.38 and system is 32bit.
>
Is there a particular reason your’e running such an obsolete kernel?

Ray

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