Re: sysinfo.sharedram not accounted for on i386 ?

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@veritas.com)
Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:46:46 +0000 (GMT)


On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Brian Grossman wrote:
> > Yes.
>
> Thanks. Is there a preferred way of getting the equivalent info
> as free(1) did under 2.2?

btw, this is not only x86 behaviour but is also true on all other
architectures. I.e. Linux defines "shared memory" as a "integer constant
with value 0". So, to say "zero" is just a shorter form of saying "Linux
concept of shared memory". However, remember that if you are interested in
shared _pages_, that information is available and is not identically 0.
See the show_mem() function in arch/i386/mm/init.c.

>
> I've written a script to derive it from /proc/[0-9]*/statm, but that seems
> like an awkward approach. A related question: is the page size stored in
> /proc somewhere?

No, PAGE_SIZE is known at compile time and cannot ever change (especially
it cannot change ig you stay within i386 architecture). It is available to
programs by including <asm/page.h> header.

Tigran

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