From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:27:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:26:53 -0500 Received: from jalon.able.es ([212.97.163.2]:56049 "EHLO jalon.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:26:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:26:42 +0100 From: "J . A . Magallon" To: Steven_Snyder@3com.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0? Message-ID: <20010108202642.A1227@werewolf.able.es> In-Reply-To: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com>; from Steven_Snyder@3com.com on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 20:11:19 +0100 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.0.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Try 'ipcs' and you'll see your shared mem segments info... On 2001.01.08 Steven_Snyder@3com.com wrote: > > > For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel > v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied). > > Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab: > > none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 > > Yes, I have created this subdirectory: > > # ls -l /dev | grep shm > drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 0 Jan 7 11:54 shm > > No complaints are seen at startup, yet I still have no shared memory: > > # cat /proc/meminfo > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 130293760 123133952 7159808 0 30371840 15179776 > Swap: 136241152 0 136241152 > MemTotal: 127240 kB > MemFree: 6992 kB > MemShared: 0 kB > Buffers: 29660 kB > Cached: 14824 kB > Active: 3400 kB > Inact_dirty: 37872 kB > Inact_clean: 3212 kB > Inact_target: 4 kB > HighTotal: 0 kB > HighFree: 0 kB > LowTotal: 127240 kB > LowFree: 6992 kB > SwapTotal: 133048 kB > SwapFree: 133048 kB > > Is there some configuration option which I missed? Some trick not mentioned > in > the doc? > > Thank you. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- J.A. Magallon $> cd pub mailto:jamagallon@able.es $> more beer Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac3 #2 SMP Sun Jan 7 02:13:37 CET 2001 i686 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/