Re: Linux 2.4 Status

From: David Ford (david@kalifornia.com)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 15:07:02 EST


Well....'long time' for me was ~ two months. Since CR's last patches, all has
been well. I use shm for apache, gimp, postgres, etc dozens of times a day,
day in and day out.

-d

Christoph Rohland wrote:

> Lincoln Dale <ltd@interlink.com.au> writes:
>
> > At 03:55 09/08/00, David Ford wrote:
> > > > * SHM segments not always being detached and destroyed right ?
> > >
> > >Haven't seen this happen in a long time and I use shm a lot.
> >
> > what's your definition of "a long time".
> >
> > some development work that i've been doing against 2.4.0-test3-pre4
> > shows that shm segments are most definitely lost and/or return to free
> > verrrry slowly.
> >
> > (i'll be upgrading to test6-pre7 soon and if its still broken will advise)
>
> Since the shm code was not changed for a long time (long time is since
> Jun 2) please advise now!
>
> I did not have _any_ complaints since my last patch to shm.
>
> Greetings
> Christoph
>
> --

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