Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2000 18:20:04 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: Broken /proc/meminfo ? |
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 04:39:40PM +0200, Michael Zieger wrote: > The "shared" and "MemShared" values show zeroes, and I didn't find > any word whether it is intended or not, so I believe it's a bug.
It is intended, because it was too costly to compute these values because the complete page tables have to be walked. (on big memory machines it even lead to jumpy mouse pointers when a memory monitor was accessing it once a second)
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