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 18:21:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:21:22 -0500 Received: from oldftp.webmaster.com ([209.10.218.74]:52634 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 18:21:05 -0500 From: "David Schwartz" To: , Subject: RE: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0? Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:21:03 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <882569CE.0069993A.00@hqoutbound.ops.3com.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 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). 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 - 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/