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SubjectRe: 2.3.23 & 2.3.24: 0k shared memory
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Illuminatus Primus wrote:

> Anyone know why 2.3.23 & 2.3.24 report 0K shared memory?

Because it's a statistic that requires walking a huge set of mm structures
(all struct pages) in the system for almost no value.

> Perhaps this is part of the reason why 2.3.24 mysteriously ran out of
> memory last night and killed sendmail, bash, and finally init.

That sounds more like patch for clear_pmd got missed in 2.3.24.

-ben


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