[lug] shm filesystem and RH/KRUD 7.3

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 04:21:35AM -0600, D. Stimits wrote:
>> Any particular reason why you are trying to remove it?
>
>It appears to be purely in ram, so it seemed like a good place to
>recover extra ram if it was not used. Add curiosity to it.

If you don't have anything using the shm, it hardly takes up any space at
all.

   Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
   none                    160236         0    160236   0% /dev/shm

In this case, it isn't 160MB that's being used, it's close to 0.

If you *DO* have applications using the shm, removing it is probably the
last thing you want to do.  If you don't have applications using it, you
won't save much RAM by removing it...

Sean
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