Stephen Clark wrote:
>
>I recently installed 2.4test9pre5 and noticed that when I cat
>/proc/meminfo the value for shared memory is 0. Am I the only one that
>is seeing this.
I'm seeing this also for 2.4.0-test10-pre5. Here is /proc/meminfo followed
by the same for a 2.2 machine running the same set of applications.
[steven@spc steven]$ uname -a
Linux spc.esa.lanl.gov 2.4.0-test10 #1 SMP Tue Oct 24 06:54:40 MDT 2000 i686
unknown
[steven@spc steven]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 260952064 248758272 12193792 0 43900928 43778048
Swap: 534601728 0 534601728
MemTotal: 254836 kB
MemFree: 11908 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 42872 kB
Cached: 42752 kB
Active: 32544 kB
Inact_dirty: 50280 kB
Inact_clean: 2800 kB
Inact_target: 28 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 254836 kB
LowFree: 11908 kB
SwapTotal: 522072 kB
SwapFree: 522072 kB
Shared memory is very definately working on both systems.
For comparison, here is the /proc/meminfo for a VALInux box with
stock RH 6.2:
[steven@tstag steven]$ uname -a
Linux tstag.esa.lanl.gov 2.2.14-5.0.14csmp #1 SMP Wed May 31 09:23:37 PDT
2000 i686 unknown
[steven@tstag steven]$ cat /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 529334272 457076736 72257536 60530688 399069184 16093184
Swap: 139821056 6266880 133554176
MemTotal: 516928 kB
MemFree: 70564 kB
MemShared: 59112 kB
Buffers: 389716 kB
Cached: 15716 kB
BigTotal: 0 kB
BigFree: 0 kB
SwapTotal: 136544 kB
SwapFree: 130424 kB
Steven
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