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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Admin Mailing Lists <mlist@intergrafix.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shared memory problem
Date: 13 Feb 2001 13:23:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k86vm1lg.fsf@linux.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102121304250.24584-100000@athena.intergrafix.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102121304250.24584-100000@athena.intergrafix.net>

Hi Admin,

On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
> 
> I've been using the 2.2.x series successfully, latest i used was
> 2.2.19pre7.  Today i upgraded to 2.4.1-ac9 and noticed that shared
> memory shows 0.  I searched the list archive briefly and someone
> said the stats have been broken since sometime in 2.3, 

Yes, right.

> but my system also shows my swap being used up a great deal (100MB
> whereas i'm rarely using more than 5MB (and that only at loaded
> times, which this isn't))

Yes, that's normal for 2.4. As soon as you run into swap it will eat
more swap space and keep it also if the load is smaller. This makes
overall swapping faster.

> this server is dedicated for apache web serving, and CONFIG_TMPFS is
> not configured in/any shm fs mounted. I didn't have this in 2.2
> either.

Doesn't have anything to do with tmpfs/shm fs.

Greetings
		Christoph



  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-13 12:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-12 18:10 shared memory problem Admin Mailing Lists
2001-02-13 12:23 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-03  8:49 Blesson Paul
2001-11-21  1:30 Shared Memory Problem David Relson
2001-11-21  1:54 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-11-21  8:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-10-06  7:22 Shared memory problem Tushar Telichari
2003-10-06 15:06 ` Chris Friesen

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