Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 14:45:29 -0400 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: Broken /proc/meminfo ? |
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 06:20:04PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > 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)
can't we set them to -1 instead? i think people are more likely to understand that -1 is `can't answer question' then 0.
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