Where'd my shared memory go?

[Brian J. Conway]

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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