From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:55:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:55:10 -0500 Received: from femail3.rdc1.on.home.com ([24.2.9.90]:62176 "EHLO femail3.rdc1.on.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 3 Jan 2001 15:53:05 -0500 Message-ID: <3A53910D.CAEDF4FF@home.net> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 15:52:29 -0500 From: Shawn Starr Reply-To: shawn.starr@home.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-prerelease i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug McNaught CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SHM Not working in 2.4.0-prerelease In-Reply-To: <3A537EA8.45889173@home.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 - 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/