On Sunday 05 June 2005 16:30, Matthew Miller wrote: > It's true that if you don't know what the mount point /dev/shm is, you > might think that you're giving up disk space, but if you know that it's not > a disk device at all and realize that it's taken out of RAM as needed up to > the defined limit (which as you can see defaults to about half of your > physical RAM), then it *does* show you something to make you feel better. You're absolutely right and I do feel better about it now. It caught my attention since Fedora Core 3 Heidelberg does not seem to have it. Thank you all for patiently explaining this to me. Andy -- Registered Linux User Number 379093 -- --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/O/>E$ d-(---)>+ s:(+)>: a--(-)>? C++++$(+++) UL++++>++++$ P-(+)>++ L+++>++++$ E---(-)@ W+++>+++$ !N@ o? !K? W--(---) !O !M- V-- PS++(+++) PE--(-) Y+ PGP++(+++) t+(++) 5-- X++ R*(+)@ !tv b-() DI(+) D+(+++) G(+) e>++++$@ h++(*) r-->++ y--()>++++ -- ---END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- Check out these few php utilities that I released under the GPL2 and that are meant for use with a php cli binary: http://www.vlaamse-kern.com/sas/ -- --