From: Claudio Martins <ctpm@vega.net.dhis.org>
To: Rodrigo Ventura <yoda@isr.ist.utl.pt>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MemShared == 0 ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:26:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01062514263402.20445@vega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <lx1yo86erg.fsf@pixie.isr.ist.utl.pt>
In-Reply-To: <lx1yo86erg.fsf@pixie.isr.ist.utl.pt>
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:21, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> /proc> cat version meminfo
> Linux version 2.4.6-pre3 (yoda@damasio) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
> (release)) #3 Mon Jun 18 19:00:11 WEST 2001 total: used: free:
> shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 261779456 256925696 4853760 0 134025216 82280448
> Swap: 271425536 10993664 260431872 ^^^^
> MemTotal: 255644 kB \
> MemFree: 4740 kB \
> MemShared: 0 kB <<<<<<<<<< **** What's the meaning of this?
> ***** Buffers: 130884 kB
>
From the discussion I've read elsewhere in this list, it means that this
value is just not computed anymore and is kept at 0 for compatibility with
old programs that parse this table. It seems that presenting this number was
computationaly expensive for the kernel.
regards
cumprimentos
Claudio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-25 10:21 MemShared == 0 ? Rodrigo Ventura
2001-06-25 13:26 ` Claudio Martins [this message]
2001-06-25 19:08 ` Erik Mouw
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