On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:29:39PM -0600, steve rader wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 05:27:56PM -0600, steve rader wrote:
> > > It's been about a dozen years since I got my BS in
> > > CompSci, but my recollection is...
> > >
> > > used is used by user-space processes
> > > shared is used for shared memory segments
>
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > No longer accurate, according to the man page.
>
> which man page? what's shared used for these days?!
free(1):
DESCRIPTION
free displays the total amount of free and used physical
and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used
by the kernel. The shared memory column should be
ignored; it is obsolete.
This is accurate, as far as I know. Here's free's output on my
brand-spanking new 2.4.20-rc3:
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 256800 246652 10148 0 30800 119884
-/+ buffers/cache: 95968 160832
Swap: 771080 216 770864
Naytheless, I have a ton of shared memory in use:
$ ipcs -mu
------ Shared Memory Status --------
segments allocated 18
pages allocated 890
pages resident 890
pages swapped 0
Swap performance: 0 attempts 0 successes
Kurt
>
> steve
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