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Source of shmget failure

Source of shmget failure

2005-10-03       - By Shaw, Marco

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>The trouble with this picture is that the node wasn't running
>anything except the usual background noise -- it certainly should
>not have required 0.83 G to do it.  And, the machine had been in
>this "idle" state for a good 12+ hours.  Shouldn't that be ample
>time for unused memory to be returned to "free" state?
 
>After I rebooted, there wasn't any significant change in the
>number and type of running processes.  However, there was a *lot*
>more free memory.
 
>I started watching memory use.  In the course of an hour,
>free reported that the memory use steadily increased (from about
>256000 to 260500 -- it makes a lovely graph).  

1. Never post in HTML format.
2. (Almost) never worry about free memory in Linux, for example:
http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/free-mem.html

Marco
RHCE  


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