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 14:12:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:12:43 -0500 Received: from topaz.3com.com ([192.156.136.158]:35534 "EHLO topaz.3com.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 14:12:27 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: 3COM From: Steven_Snyder@3com.com To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:11:19 -0600 Subject: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/