What is the difference between buffers and cached? (was: Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question)

2001-02-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Feb 04 2001, LA Walsh wrote: > Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory > in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared > memory. AFAIK, the 2.4.0 series does share memory, but it's just the counters that are not updated, for they are

Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question

2001-02-05 Thread Shawn Starr
Its supposed to, its too costly to calculate shared memory with the new VM I'm told. Shawn. LA Walsh wrote: > Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory > in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared > memory. These two observations would have me

Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question

2001-02-05 Thread Shawn Starr
Its supposed to, its too costly to calculate shared memory with the new VM I'm told. Shawn. LA Walsh wrote: Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared memory. These two observations would have me

What is the difference between buffers and cached? (was: Re: 2.4.x Shared memory question)

2001-02-05 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Feb 04 2001, LA Walsh wrote: Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared memory. AFAIK, the 2.4.0 series does share memory, but it's just the counters that are not updated, for they are

2.4.x Shared memory question

2001-02-04 Thread LA Walsh
Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared memory. These two observations would have me wondering if I have somehow misconfigured my system to disallow sharing. Note that /proc/meminfo also shows 0 shared

2.4.x Shared memory question

2001-02-04 Thread LA Walsh
Another oddity -- I notice things taking alot more memory in 2.4. This coincides with 'top' consistently showing I have 0 shared memory. These two observations would have me wondering if I have somehow misconfigured my system to disallow sharing. Note that /proc/meminfo also shows 0 shared