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From: Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>
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Subject: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo
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Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts,
/proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0.  It is in
reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows
up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
etc..
Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct
display.