Re: 2.4test9-pre5 shared memory?

From: Craig Schlenter (craig@qualica.com)
Date: Thu Oct 26 2000 - 08:41:10 EST


On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 07:25:34AM -0600, Steven Cole wrote:
> 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.

This has been "broken" since early in 2.3.x (x==13 I think). Apparently it
is costly to keep these sorts of stats so it's not done anymore.

--Craig
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