From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <Steven_Snyder@3com.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0?
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:21:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NCBBLIEPOCNJOAEKBEAKKECDMOAA.davids@webmaster.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com>
> 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).
You are confusing System V shared memory (IPC) with VM shared memory. The
'0' for shared in /proc/meminfo means the system can't easily tell you how
much memory the VM is sharing. But this has nothing whatsoever to do with
IPC shared memory, which is what the /dev/shm thing is about.
DS
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-08 23:21 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
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 [this message]
2001-01-10 0:19 ` Igmar Palsenberg
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