From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:20:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:20:48 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:47801 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 4 Jan 2001 05:20:40 -0500 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" Cc: doug@wireboard.com (Doug McNaught), shawn.starr@home.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SHM Not working in 2.4.0-prerelease In-Reply-To: <200101032021.f03KLwX394037@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: Christoph Rohland In-Reply-To: <200101032021.f03KLwX394037@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: 04 Jan 2001 11:16:47 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Albert D. Cahalan" writes: > >> [spstarr@coredump /etc]$ free > >> total used free shared buffers > ... > >> the shmfs is mounted. Is there any configuration i need to get > >> shm memory activiated? > > > > The 'shared' field in /proc/meminfo (source for 'top' and 'free') > > has nothing to do with {SysV,POSIX} shared memory. > > Hey, that would be a good use for the field. Not a bad idea. Then we could tell free etc to subtract this from the +/- cached free numbers... I will look into this. Christoph - 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/