From: Shawn Starr <Shawn.Starr@Home.net>
To: LA Walsh <law@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:51:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7ECBFE.7C035F45@Home.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A7E49C6.BE283336@sgi.com>
Its supposed to, its too costly to calculate shared memory with the new VM
I'm told.
Shawn.
LA Walsh wrote:
> Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory
> in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared
> memory. These two observations would have me wondering if I
> have somehow misconfigured my system to disallow sharing. Note
> that /proc/meminfo also shows 0 shared memory:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 525897728 465264640 60633088 0 82145280 287862784
> Swap: 270909440 0 270909440
> MemTotal: 513572 kB
> MemFree: 59212 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 80220 kB
> Cached: 281116 kB
> Active: 22340 kB
> Inact_dirty: 338996 kB
> Inact_clean: 0 kB
> Inact_target: 0 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 513572 kB
> LowFree: 59212 kB
> SwapTotal: 264560 kB
> SwapFree: 264560 kB
>
> Not that it seems unrelated, but I do have filesystem type shm
> mounted on /dev/shm as suggested for POSIX shared memory.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-05 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-05 6:35 2.4.x Shared memory question LA Walsh
2001-02-05 15:51 ` Shawn Starr [this message]
2001-02-06 0:12 ` What is the difference between buffers and cached? (was: Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question) Rogerio Brito
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