hi

so my quastion is why /dev/shm is never used on my system?
or mayby it's used but I can't see it?


#df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 25G 24G 1.8G 94% /
/dev/hda1 13G 13G 86M 100% /mnt/xp
none 379M 0 379M 0% /dev/shm


#mount
/dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,noatime)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/xp type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,umask=022)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

my machine is:
AMD ATHLON XP 2200+ ( 1.8 GHz )
K7VZA PCB 3.0 AGP 4x
3x 256 MB RAM - DIMM 133MHz
ATI RADEON 9200SE 128 MB RAM 64bit

my distibiution is gentoo,
kernel is 2.6.11-r6
xorg 6.8.2-r1
ati-drivers 8.12.10
kde-3.3.2

hardware 3d acceleration runs fine, with quake3 I get more fps than on
windows

but my system is so sloooow
after lets say 3 hours of work it takes more than 10secs to open new
tab in firefox.

it looks for me like the system is using only 10% ram or something I
guess

anyway what should by the right size of /dev/shm ?

thanks
serwerr