Re: MemShared == 0 ?

[Claudio Martins]

On Monday 25 June 2001 11:21, Rodrigo Ventura wrote:
> /proc> cat version meminfo
> Linux version 2.4.6-pre3 (yoda@damasio) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
> (release)) #3 Mon Jun 18 19:00:11 WEST 2001 total:    used:    free: 
> shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  261779456 256925696  4853760        0 134025216 82280448
> Swap: 271425536 10993664 260431872     ^^^^
> MemTotal:       255644 kB                  \
> MemFree:          4740 kB                   \
> MemShared:           0 kB  <<<<<<<<<< **** What's the meaning of this?
> ***** Buffers:        130884 kB
>

  From the discussion I've read elsewhere in this list, it means that this 
value is just not computed anymore and is kept at 0 for compatibility with 
old programs that parse this table. It seems that presenting this number was 
computationaly expensive for the kernel.

regards
cumprimentos

  Claudio