/dev/shm (shared memory) on linux
- by Kirzilla
Hello,
Let's imagine that we have 8Gb of RAM on server.
I'm mounting /dev/shm with 4Gb on board.
mount -o remount,size=4G /dev/shm
Will this memory be strictly reserved for shared memory or if /dev/shm is empty this memory could be used by regular applications (web server, php etc.)?
PS:Sorry for my English.
I'm asking it because I've just checked df -h and found tmpfs 6.0G 0 6.0G 0% /dev/shm on 8Gb RAM sever. I don't know who made this setup, but it seems to me awful.
Thank you!