From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > as far as i know is /dev/shm a default with rh and fc... > > > its a "ramdisk" (in lack of better terms...) > > A ramdisk of 512mb? Isn't that a bit far-fetched of FC? I mean sure I got > > 1024Mb of Ram but that's not for it to be wasted on a Ramdisk that isn't used > > by anyone. > /dev/shm is used for inter-process communication. Removing it will > probably cause various things to break. shm stands for SHaredMemory. A lot appliciations shares information to another appliciations. Its like DDE on Microsoft. It is not 512 Mb. Here it is 400Kb. Thats way enough for applications that use shm. Danny.
