BusyBox top buffered and the cached memory

[Christoph Biedl]

Klaaßen, Fynn (LAWO) <Fynn.Klaassen at lawo.com>  wrote:

> I guess, there is a trivial bug when using busybox top:
>
> BusyBox v1.22.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.22.0-15ubuntu1) multi-call binary:
>
> Mem: 3278296K used, 1236784K free, 0K shrd, 35373432K buff, 140001458828604 K cached

This has been fixed a while ago in

| 7df1f1dda1f997c44800d16a9a12cf6cae2ed7e7 is the first bad commit
| commit 7df1f1dda1f997c44800d16a9a12cf6cae2ed7e7
| Author: Timo Teräs <timo.teras at iki.fi>
| Date:   Mon Jul 21 14:14:24 2014 +0300
|
|     top: fix and merge code to parse /proc/meminfo

Unfortunately, the version of busybox shipped in Debian/Ubuntu is fairly
outdated. This however is going to change soon-ish. For the time being,
just a typo reported by Debian's obnoxious lint checker "lintian":

I: busybox-static: spelling-error-in-binary bin/busybox compatiblity compatibility

(That's in util-linux/fdisk.c)

Cheers,

    Christoph