What is the difference between buffers and cached? (was: Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question)

On Feb 04 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory > in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared > memory. AFAIK, the 2.4.0 series does share memory, but it's just the counters that are not updated, for they are

Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question

Its supposed to, its too costly to calculate shared memory with the new VM I'm told. Shawn. LA Walsh wrote: > Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory > in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared > memory. These two observations would have me wonde