[pulseaudio-discuss] shm size

[Nick Thompson]

Gotcha, thanks

-- Nick

On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

> On Tue, 30.09.08 13:37, Nick Thompson (rextanka at comcast.net) wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2008, at 1:00 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>
>>> Does have in impact? In which way?
>>
>> On a 4Gb device it would consume around 1.6% of available flash.   
>> Like
>> I said, not a show stopper.
>
> No, it normally wouldn't consume anything.
>
> Firstly, /dev/shm is a tmpfs, i.e. a RAM file system, so no Flash
> space should be allocated for it ever (unless you swap to Flash).
>
> Now, it usually doesn't even consume much RAM, because as I said
> multiple times already: the size of this shm file does NOT reflect the
> actual use of RAM, it reflect the use of address space. Use "du" to
> figure out the use RAM.
>
> Again:
>
> The file size reflects the amount of reserved address space.
>
> The disk usage ("du") reflect the amount of used RAM.
>
> Lennart
>
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