On 2001 October 29 Monday 06:39, Michel Dänzer wrote: > You should RTFM in the first place. ;)
point taken :-) Thanks for the info. >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 'The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.'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... I happened to read a nice article on it yesterday. It is located at "http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html";. According to the author, CONFIG_TMPFS=y lets you use the POSIX shared memory, and you can access a nice, ramdisk-like filesystem at /dev/shm. I enabled this option yesterday, and observed that the swap space is used even though there's plenty ram unused. I suppose this is how shared memory works? Joongul > 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).
