Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935434AbXJQUtZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933626AbXJQUtK (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:10 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.185]:10446 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933631AbXJQUtI (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=hkJ4wUuyI/GQny6TKovKZTr9yKu5w5icOXj8EImyaYewFZcwWSApEQrWDbCNid++fX+d/fXb6hV0RtXF26SbzFvcqOvvqkkWHLLNghbOEksTud+YzM7x2s89c025lYJ1T+dsl5GP7U5Uz6LE67iNfnrIom24yI2zi8T6ZikqepA= Message-ID: <75b66ecd0710171349n2a2a5922qfc0d8bb64980a15c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:49:07 -0400 From: "Lee Revell" To: lkml Subject: VM question - accounting of SysV SHM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3ba63c72060a4a6b Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 594 Lines: 15 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 go up by the amount of shared memory allocated. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/