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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-pre4|BK] remove /proc/meminfo:MemShared
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
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On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 12:42, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> it seems to have been displaying zero for the past several years.

It was left in because some tools break if you remove it. For 2.5 its
much less of an issue.