Re: free reports that shared memory is not used

2001-10-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:06:24AM +0900, Joongul Lee wrote: > 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

Re: free reports that shared memory is not used

2001-10-28 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 10:39:21PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > PS: I do have the line > > none /dev/shmshm defaults0 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

Re: free reports that shared memory is not used

2001-10-28 Thread Joongul Lee
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 'The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.'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/shmshm

Re: free reports that shared memory is not used

2001-10-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
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 sharedbuffers cached > Mem:255356 240896 14460 0

free reports that shared memory is not used

2001-10-28 Thread Joongul Lee
Hello, Ever since I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.*, my free report looks like the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255356 240896 14460 0 3704 121232 -/+ buffers/cache: 115960