From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: On newer 2.4.18 kernels, MemShared in /proc/meminfo is always reported as zero (0). Is there a reason shared memory isn't reported? This may not be a bug, but a legitimate feature. Under 2.4.[79] kernels, this value was typically small, but never zero. It always seemed to low under those kernels as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cat /proc/meminfo 2. 3. Actual Results: MemShared: 0 kB Expected Results: MemShared: 52 kB Additional info:
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