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Old 06-04-2002, 08:04 AM   #1
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/dev/shm


when i type df the output is

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1889568 1719604 73980 96% /
none 79232 0 79232 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 2092328 1232100 860228 59% /mnt/hda1


what is /dev/shm here?
 
Old 06-04-2002, 10:12 AM   #2
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I have no idea, but since it is mounted automatically look through /etc/fstab and that might give you a clue on what /dev/shm might be...

Hope that helps

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Old 06-04-2002, 10:35 AM   #3
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This is your swap
 
Old 06-05-2002, 01:18 AM   #4
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here is my /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 auto noauto,users 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0


and there is a seperate entry for swap partition. more over simply invoking df will not show swap partion
 
Old 06-05-2002, 03:21 AM   #5
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shm is your shared memory system, nothing to do with swap. Shared memory, shared messages and semaphores are part of IPC, interprocess communications, which allows different programs within UNIX/Linux to talk to each other, pass data or just signal each other. Do a google search on "Interprocess communications" for more indepth descriptions on IPC. -mk
 
Old 06-05-2002, 03:45 AM   #6
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Re: /dev/shm

Quote:
Originally posted by sakeeb
when i type df the output is

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 1889568 1719604 73980 96% /
none 79232 0 79232 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 2092328 1232100 860228 59% /mnt/hda1


what is /dev/shm here?
You're running very low on free space on your root ( /dev/hda5 ) partition.
 
Old 06-05-2002, 04:26 AM   #7
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i have only 4 gb harddisk and 2 gb devoted to windows
i am satisfied with it

thanks for having a look at this thread and giving valuable informations.
 
Old 06-05-2002, 05:17 AM   #8
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hm I always wondered what that shm is, but never botherd enough to try to find out

but why it alsways 0 used?
 
Old 06-05-2002, 05:29 AM   #9
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Quote:
Originally posted by sakeeb
i have only 4 gb harddisk and 2 gb devoted to windows
i am satisfied with it

thanks for having a look at this thread and giving valuable informations.
If you run too low, you won't be able to start X window. You need to see what files that you don't need anymore and then delete them.
 
Old 06-05-2002, 06:03 AM   #10
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To get a true indication of what IPC is using, type in the command:

ipcs -a

I think the reason why it states 0 is due to it not really being a filesystem. Just running the kernel and whatever starts up upon boot uses shared memory, shared messages and semaphores. -mk
 
  


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