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Old 02-04-2011, 12:12 AM   #1
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shared memory is only using 4 gigs of ram


how come shared memory is only using 4 gigs of ram?

Code:
localhost router # free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          8001        858       7142          0        130        235
-/+ buffers/cache:        492       7508
Swap:            0          0          0
localhost router #
Code:
localhost ram_stuff # df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                 36G   14G   21G  41% /
/dev/root              36G   14G   21G  41% /
rc-svcdir             1.0M   60K  964K   6% /lib64/rc/init.d
udev                   10M  236K  9.8M   3% /dev
shm                   4.0G     0  4.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2             463M   72M  367M  17% /boot
tmpfs                 4.0G   13M  3.9G   1% /tmp
tmpfs                 4.0G   11M  3.9G   1% /ram_stuff
localhost ram_stuff #
 
Old 02-04-2011, 12:19 AM   #2
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It is the default setting for shared memory to use half of the RAM.
 
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