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To: "Terry Kendal" <kewl@compfort.pl>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: no shared memory?
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:41:55 -0300
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On Mar 30 Oct 2001 09:37, Terry Kendal wrote:
> hello,
>
> after upgrading my computer to newer distro with kernel series 2.4 ive
> found something i have question about
> issuing free or top commands shows 0kb of shared memory
>
> how is that possible ?
> i have apache and mysql running, thought they'd use shared memory?

Use 'ipcs' for searching shared memory and semaphores of aplications.

> i recompiled procps package with no effect
>
> can someone please xplain it to me ?

It seems dificult to calculate the amount of shared memory used, and for what 
I know, useless.
Anyway, I heard that Alan Cox's release of 2.4.13 has some code to show the 
shared memory used, but only the one used my applications.

Saludos... :-)

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