Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
On 10/17/07, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 > "Lee Revell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > >

Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 "Lee Revell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
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? I have an application that uses SysV shared memory and O_DIRECT for all IO, but when it starts up, the cached column in vmstat seems to

VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
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? I have an application that uses SysV shared memory and O_DIRECT for all IO, but when it starts up, the cached column in vmstat seems to

Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

Re: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM

2007-10-17 Thread Lee Revell
On 10/17/07, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 Lee Revell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?