Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: shared memory ? | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2000 20:57:31 +0100 (BST) |
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Khimenko Victor writes: > Yeas and no. No, it is NOT normal - shared memory should not be displayed > as 0. And yes it IS normal since it's well-known problem of VERY low > priority: it does not trigger bugs in code, it does not crash system and so > on so we can live with it for 2.4.0. In 2.4.<something-big> it will be fixed, > I hope.
This has been discussed at long length previously here. You may want to search the archives. IIRC, it will not be fixed, since the overhead of calculating it is too great. The only reason the figure remains is for compatibility with some programs that read /proc/meminfo. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
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