From: James Washer <washer(a)trlp.com&gt; To: Crash-utility(a)redhat.com Subject: [Crash-utility] Crash dump of RHEL5, what does "SHARED" memory represent in kmem -i output? Message-ID: <E06C76EC-884A-4C02-9566-D647E0B575CA(a)trlp.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In the data below, what memory usage is reported as SHARED? Does this imply SysV shared memory, or pages shared between processes, or something else all together? kmem-i PAGES TOTAL PERCENTAGE TOTAL MEM 9228936 35.2 GB ---- FREE 20260 79.1 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM USED 9208676 35.1 GB 99% of TOTAL MEM SHARED 9051322 34.5 GB 98% of TOTAL MEM BUFFERS 151 604 KB 0% of TOTAL MEM CACHED 2455 9.6 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM SLAB 27419 107.1 MB 0% of TOTAL MEM TOTAL HIGH 0 0 0% of TOTAL MEM FREE HIGH 0 0 0% of TOTAL HIGH TOTAL LOW 9228936 35.2 GB 100% of TOTAL MEM FREE LOW 20260 79.1 MB 0% of TOTAL LOW TOTAL SWAP 4194302 16 GB ---- SWAP USED 2294571 8.8 GB 54% of TOTAL SWAP SWAP FREE 1899731 7.2 GB 45% of TOTAL SWAP - jim