Where'd my shared memory go?

[Ken Gosier]

To throw this in, since I didn't see any responses: There
was a discussion on this list a month or two ago about
this, if it's the same phenomenon. Here's a link about how
Solaris manages its memory, which is analogous:

http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-10-1995/swol-10-perf_p.html





--- "Brian J. Conway" <dogbert at clue4all.net> wrote:
> Under a 2.2.18 kernel machine I get the following:
> 
> [dogbert at powertrip dogbert]$ free
>              total       used       free     shared   
> buffers    
> cached
> Mem:         95600      92836       2764      40116     
> 45144     
> 10112
> -/+ buffers/cache:      37580      58020
> Swap:       202212       2040     200172
> [dogbert at powertrip dogbert]$
> 
> Under a 2.4.1 kernel machine I get the following:
> 
> [root at ladyluck /]# free
>              total       used       free     shared   
> buffers    
> cached
> Mem:        513224     510628       2596          0     
> 74376    
> 220572
> -/+ buffers/cache:     215680     297544
> Swap:       136544          0     136544
> [root at ladyluck /]#
> 
> What happened to my shared memory, and is this a bad
> thing?
> 
> Brian J. Conway
> dogbert at clue4all.net
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