Re: free reports that shared memory is not used
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:
>
> jlee@chaconne:~$ 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).
You should RTFM in the first place. ;) 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'The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete.'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...
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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