Re: Apache::SizeLimit?

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Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:27 +0200, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> 
>>Is there a way on linux to get the amount of pages shared among processes by 
>>copy on write?
> 
> 
> No.  There was a lengthy discussion about this on the list a few months
> back.  The methods used by SizeLimit and GTop no longer work, if they
> ever did.  They do calculate size correctly, but not shared size.

It's not that SizeLimit and GTop no longer work, it's the recent linux 
kernels that have stopped maitaining certain information about shared 
memory. So the sharing happens, but there is no way to measure it.

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