Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Duncan
Christoph Rohland wrote: > > Hi Allan, > > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote: > > OK, it's fine by me if the "shared" under 2.2.x is not the same, > > however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, > > rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel > >

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-25 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Allan, On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote: > OK, it's fine by me if the "shared" under 2.2.x is not the same, > however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, > rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel > hackers like me up the garden path. This

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-25 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Allan, On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote: OK, it's fine by me if the shared under 2.2.x is not the same, however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel hackers like me up the garden path. This would

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-25 Thread Allan Duncan
Christoph Rohland wrote: Hi Allan, On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Allan Duncan wrote: OK, it's fine by me if the shared under 2.2.x is not the same, however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel hackers like

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-24 Thread Allan Duncan
OK, it's fine by me if the "shared" under 2.2.x is not the same, however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel hackers like me up the garden path. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-24 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Albert, On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > You misunderstood what 2.2.xx kernels were reporting. > The "shared" memory in /proc/meminfo refers to something > completely unrelated to SysV shared memory. This is no > longer calculated because the computation was too costly. But

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-24 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Albert, On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: You misunderstood what 2.2.xx kernels were reporting. The shared memory in /proc/meminfo refers to something completely unrelated to SysV shared memory. This is no longer calculated because the computation was too costly. But the load

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-24 Thread Allan Duncan
OK, it's fine by me if the shared under 2.2.x is not the same, however in that case the field should not appear at all in meminfo, rather than the current zero value, which leads lesser kernel hackers like me up the garden path. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Allan Duncan writes: > Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, > /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in > reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows > up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall > etc.. > Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the

Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Allan Duncan
Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall etc.. Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct display. - To unsubscribe from

Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Allan Duncan
Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall etc.. Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct display. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Shared memory quantity not being reflected by /proc/meminfo

2001-06-23 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Allan Duncan writes: Since the 2.4.x advent of shm as tmpfs or thereabouts, /proc/meminfo shows shared memory as 0. It is in reality not zero, and is being allocated, and shows up in /proc/sysvipc/shm and /proc/sys/kernel/shmall etc.. Neither 2.4.6-pre5 nor 2.4.5-ac17 have the correct