Re: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0?

J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Mon, 8 Jan 2001 20:26:42 +0100

Try 'ipcs' and you'll see your shared mem segments info...

On 2001.01.08 Steven_Snyder@3com.com wrote:
>
>
> For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel
> v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
>
> Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
>
> none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0
>
> Yes, I have created this subdirectory:
>
> # ls -l /dev | grep shm
> drwxrwxrwt 1 root root 0 Jan 7 11:54 shm
>
> No complaints are seen at startup, yet I still have no shared memory:
>
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 130293760 123133952 7159808 0 30371840 15179776
> Swap: 136241152 0 136241152
> MemTotal: 127240 kB
> MemFree: 6992 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 29660 kB
> Cached: 14824 kB
> Active: 3400 kB
> Inact_dirty: 37872 kB
> Inact_clean: 3212 kB
> Inact_target: 4 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 127240 kB
> LowFree: 6992 kB
> SwapTotal: 133048 kB
> SwapFree: 133048 kB
>
> Is there some configuration option which I missed? Some trick not mentioned
> in
> the doc?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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