RE: Shared memory not enabled in 2.4.0?

From: David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 18:21:03 EST


> 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).

        You are confusing System V shared memory (IPC) with VM shared memory. The
'0' for shared in /proc/meminfo means the system can't easily tell you how
much memory the VM is sharing. But this has nothing whatsoever to do with
IPC shared memory, which is what the /dev/shm thing is about.

        DS

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