Bug#2460: bizarre output from `free'

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Package: procps
Version: 0.99-1b

-chiark:~> free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         18796      18636        160       7596        380       3384
-/+ buffers:            18256        540
Swap:        80044      26872      53172
MemTotal:         18
MemFree:          0
MemShared:          7
Buffers:          0
Cached:          3
SwapTotal:         78
SwapFree:         51
-chiark:~> uname -av
Linux chiark 1.3.68 #4 Sun Mar 3 13:10:23 GMT 1996 i486
-chiark:~> cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  19247104 17293312  1953792  6995968  1003520  4177920
Swap: 81965056 25350144 56614912
MemTotal:     18796 kB
MemFree:       1908 kB
MemShared:     6832 kB
Buffers:        980 kB
Cached:        4080 kB
SwapTotal:    80044 kB
SwapFree:     55288 kB
-chiark:~>

(Personally I think that extra info in /proc/meminfo is silly.)

Ian.