Re: Shared pages

["Andi Kleen" <ak@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Ralf,

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:24:52PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> Something is odd with our mm in test8-pre1.  According to /proc/meminfo
> we don't have any shared pages.  Haven't yet tried this in test9.  Ideas
> what might be causing this?

Shared page info was removed in latest 2.4, because it requires long 
table walks which cause scheduling anomalies when you have several GB
of RAM. When done once per second by a system monitor on a really big
system the mouse pointer hangs often. 

-Andi