From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Steven_Snyder@3com.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:19:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5A12D8.F10D3440@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com>
Steven_Snyder@3com.com wrote:
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 130293760 123133952 7159808 0 30371840 15179776
This is not SysV/POSIX shared memory. This used to mean the memory that
was shared between processes (from librares etc.). It became too
expensive to calculate so it was removed. It only remains in
/proc/meminfo for backwards compatability with programs that parse that
file.
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Brian Gerst
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-08 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 19:11 Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0? Steven_Snyder
2001-01-08 19:18 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-08 19:19 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2001-01-08 19:21 ` Gregory Maxwell
2001-01-08 19:26 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-01-08 21:10 ` Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
2001-01-08 23:21 ` David Schwartz
2001-01-10 0:19 ` Igmar Palsenberg
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