On Sun, 2001-10-28 at 14:23, Joongul Lee wrote: > Ever since I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.*, my free report looks like > the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 255356 240896 14460 0 3704 121232 > -/+ buffers/cache: 115960 139396 > Swap: 65532 988 64544 > > Is there a crucial kernel option I forgot to include? My kernel option is > attached here... > > My pismo functions fine, but I'm curious why this is happening... My > apologies if this is a well-known issue already covered (I did look up the > archive but couldn't find related topics).
You should RTFM in the first place. ;) From the free(1) manpage: 'The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.' PS: I do have the line none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 in /etc/fstab ever since I've been running a 2.4 kernel, but I have no idea what this actually is for or what the effect of not having it would be... -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
