Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400
"Lee Revell" <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry to ask this question on the list but I've Googled and found
> nothing.
> 
> Is system V shared memory accounted for as Cached, or as normal
> application memory?

Cached.

Shared memory segments basically are tmpfs files.

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