Thank you for your response!
I one word: "ENLIGHTENED" ;-)
On 25-Aug-97 joost witteveen wrote:
> No. Look at this:
>
> MemTotal: 47244 kB
> MemFree: 776 kB
> MemShared: 85632 kB
> Buffers: 2404 kB
> Cached: 8804 kB
> SwapTotal: 61452 kB
> SwapFree: 56672 kB
>
> This is after I started several (about 20) xterms.
> As you can see, I've only got 48M total, but MemShared is already 85M.
I see -- wonderful! Even in this difficult way, Linux is exactly the
opposite of Micro$ofts Windowns. ;-)
> (Shared reports the amount of memory saved because different applications
> each use the same binaries/libaries (xterm+it's libraries, in this case).
> This can be much more than the total of memory).
Is it possible, that one process allocs mem in a very "dirty" way,
don't free that and terminates and this mem remains still allocated?
Possibly "hidden", so the kernel isn't able to free that mem by itself?
Something of a "permanent memory leak" ?
>
> Note that "used" memory isn't included in the tagged /proc/meninfo
> lists.
Would be nice to have such info...
> So, in my case (above), about all of my memory is "used", and
> I'm saving an awfull lot by linux's smart sharing of memory.
Logically, you can add more memory by using all...confusing ;-) 8*)
>
> Apparently, you use about 20M still for X and the daemons you're also
> running.
Ooops -- that much only for X??? How does it run as I had only
16MB without swapping?
Adding memory by using all? ;-)
Is that, what people call "reverse engineering"? ;-) :*)
> Very well possible.
Rocks falling off my heart.....
>
>
>> What is going on in my box???
>
> It's running linux. Be happy.
Yes, I was, I am, and will ever be!
Thank you again very much Joost!
KEEP HACKING!
meino
>
> --
> joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
>#!/usr/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj
> $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1
> lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/)
>#what's this? see http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/
>
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Date: 25-Aug-97
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