Re: 2.0.1: /proc/meminfo wrong

Ronald Wahl (Ronald.Wahl@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Thu, 4 Jul 1996 09:57:06 +0200 (MET DST)


On Thu, 4 Jul 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Russell Berry wrote:
>
> > I just noticed this same thing at work, I have 16Meg Ram, and it only
> > says I have 14Meg. What's up???
> > >
> > > Look at the shared field of the following output. How can it be creater
> > > than my total memory?
> [...]
> My other impression was that the shared total is the total of all shared
> memory in use by all processes...thus the same memory shared between
> several processes is counted several times.

Who needs this info? I want to know exactly how many memory is shared and
how many is private.

ron

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