From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: allan.d@bigpond.com (Allan Duncan), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo
Date: 24 Jun 2001 10:44:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3n16yjmkl.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106240249.f5O2nIF07215@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200106240249.f5O2nIF07215@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
Hi Albert,
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> You misunderstood what 2.2.xx kernels were reporting.
> The "shared" memory in /proc/meminfo refers to something
> completely unrelated to SysV shared memory. This is no
> longer calculated because the computation was too costly.
But the load of misinterpretations and the missing value led me to
export the number of shmem pages in later -ac kernels exactly in this
field.
I know it is a change of semantics and because of this both Alan and
me asked for comments if this change is appreciated. I am still
waiting for responses though.
Greetings
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-24 9:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-23 12:08 Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo Allan Duncan
2001-06-24 2:49 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-24 8:44 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-06-24 12:25 ` Allan Duncan
2001-06-25 7:01 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-06-25 10:19 ` Allan Duncan
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