Messages in this thread | | | From | Steven Cole <> | Subject | Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory? | Date | Thu, 26 Oct 2000 07:25:34 -0600 |
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Stephen Clark wrote: > >I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat >/proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that >is seeing this.
I'm seeing this also for 2.4.0-test10-pre5. Here is /proc/meminfo followed by the same for a 2.2 machine running the same set of applications.
[steven@spc steven]$ uname -a Linux spc.esa.lanl.gov 2.4.0-test10 #1 SMP Tue Oct 24 06:54:40 MDT 2000 i686 unknown [steven@spc steven]$ cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 260952064 248758272 12193792 0 43900928 43778048 Swap: 534601728 0 534601728 MemTotal: 254836 kB MemFree: 11908 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 42872 kB Cached: 42752 kB Active: 32544 kB Inact_dirty: 50280 kB Inact_clean: 2800 kB Inact_target: 28 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 254836 kB LowFree: 11908 kB SwapTotal: 522072 kB SwapFree: 522072 kB
Shared memory is very definately working on both systems. For comparison, here is the /proc/meminfo for a VALInux box with stock RH 6.2:
[steven@tstag steven]$ uname -a Linux tstag.esa.lanl.gov 2.2.14-5.0.14csmp #1 SMP Wed May 31 09:23:37 PDT 2000 i686 unknown [steven@tstag steven]$ cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 529334272 457076736 72257536 60530688 399069184 16093184 Swap: 139821056 6266880 133554176 MemTotal: 516928 kB MemFree: 70564 kB MemShared: 59112 kB Buffers: 389716 kB Cached: 15716 kB BigTotal: 0 kB BigFree: 0 kB SwapTotal: 136544 kB SwapFree: 130424 kB
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