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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Linux SHM

/dev/shm is nothing but implementation of traditional shared memoryconcept. It is an efficient means of passing data between programs. One program will create a memory portion, which other processes (if permitted) can access. This will result into speeding up things on Linux.


For example, if you have 8GB RAM then remount /dev/shm as follows:
# mount -o remount,size=8G /dev/shm

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