In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Ah, I see.  I have never come across a program (yet) that uses it for
> shared memory.  Perhaps I'm just running the wrong programs.

The program itself is not using it, its glibc2.2 which does use that (for
POSIX shm, I think not for SYSV. so its quite seldom used).

I need to double check, but one possible user could be Java with
-XX:+UseLargePages if it does not use hugetlbfs.

> Actually, some things use /dev/shm for non-shared-memory purposes.
> Like the resolvconf package.

I would consider that a bug, but sure possible.

Gruss
Bernd


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