great info, but ... how can i see the 'actual' memory use when running 2.4.0 ?
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2001 4:04 PM To: Amal Phadke Cc: Debian User List Subject: Re: 2.4.0 and shared memory -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi all, > > I am using Potato with 2.4.0 right now. I have noticed that 'free' > command now reports 0 shared memory and 0 swap usage. With kernel > 2.2.18, it used to report few megabytes of shared memory. My box has > half a gig of RAM, but when I was using 2.2.18 kernel, the system used > at least some swap space, especially after I ran one of my memory > hungry Fortran programs or after creating a CD image. But now it's 0 > no matter. Has anyone else noticed this behavior? This is normal for 2.4. Some fields in /proc/meminfo (which 'free' uses to gather it's information) are not longer used, thus read 0 (totally removing those unused fields will totally break 'free'). 'free' just doesn't know that those fields are used any more. 2.4 also totally re-did the VM subsystem, and moves unused stuff to swap much less often. Primarily because the VM subsystem is more efficient. - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ZwX8/ZTSZFDeHPwRAgNsAJ42tEafjwdQdBkU30uAk4vhO9NN6wCfWYHt N/6hEfbXVNvGeqxdnGvXIA8= =+mUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
