Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:52:29 -0500 | From | Shawn Starr <> | Subject | Re: SHM Not working in 2.4.0-prerelease |
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ahh ok, so everythings fine then. It would be nice though to see that value perhaps in future they'll be a way.
Thanks,
Shawn.
Doug McNaught wrote:
> Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@home.net> writes: > > > [spstarr@coredump /etc]$ free > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 62496 61264 1232 0 1248 > > 28848 > > > > > > There's no shared memory being used? > > [...] > > > the shmfs is mounted. Is there any configuration i need to get shm > > memory activiated? > > The 'shared' field in /proc/meminfo (source for 'top' and 'free') has > nothing to do with {SysV,POSIX} shared memory. The 'shared' field > referred to memory that was used by more than one process (shared > libraries, shared text segments etc). As I understand it, under 2.4 > the 'shared' field is very expensive to calculate, so we don't--the > zero value is there to avoid breaking programs that parse > /proc/meminfo. > > -Doug
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