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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

