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Bug 31718

Summary:	top/ps show deprecated 'shared' field on 2.4.x
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ed McKenzie <eem12>
Component:	procps	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-03-13 21:54:36 UTC

Kernel 2.4 seems to have deprecated the 'shared' statistic, and top/ps now 
show zero for this value. IMHO, it would be best if they didn't show a 
statistic that isn't being computed.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-03-14 02:46:47 UTC

*** Bug 31719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2001-03-14 20:38:29 UTC

we will keep displaying shared because many scripts are parsing the output of 
/proc/meminfo or "free".  Removing the statistic would break this.

At least, that's what Michael K Johnson, procps maintainer, told me.

Comment 3 Ed McKenzie 2001-09-01 15:11:36 UTC

Shared mem is computed again as of linux-2.4.6.