[Users] held and maxheld below barrier and limit but failcnt = 4

[Ian P. Christian]

Franz STUMPNER wrote:
> I have the Problem that my /proc/user_beancounters displays an failcount 
> of 4 at the privvmpages section:
> 
> Version: 2.5
>       uid  resource    held    maxheld barrier    limit    failcnt
>      102:  kmemsize    2827049 3378858 41840803   46024883 0
>            lockedpages 0       0       2043       2043     0
>            *privvmpages 118113  130716  173225     198547   4*
> 
> How can it be that failcnt is 4 when the held and maxheld values are 
> below the barrier an limit values?
> For me it means that the privvmpages never hit the barrier or limit, how 
> can there be a failcnt!? Or I'm wrong?

This can happen if someone has changed the barrier since tha failures 
happened, is that likely?