"Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to