[NBLUG/talk] ipcs/ipcrm

[Walter Hansen]

I'll have to look into it. Perhaps webmin uses it. I run almost nothing
else on the server besides the set of our custom scripts. (it's a sonic
colo) Sendmail and webmin are about it. I'll go poking in a few days and
see what I can find. Thanks!

>
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:14:01 -0700 (PDT), "Walter Hansen"
> <gandalf at sonic.net> said:
>> Yay, it seemed to work with no error messages.
>
> Cool.
>
>> Thanks bunches.
>
> Glad I could help.
>
>> I wonder what's up with that postgres 10meg sms
>> though? Is that normal?
>
>> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
>> key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
>> 0x00000000 557058     postgres  600        10436608   1          dest
>
> Two things to notice: 1)  It has no key; and 2) it's in pending destroy
> state.
>
> This implies to me that is is being used as a private shared memory
> area for the postgres server and its forked children.  This is very
> probably something to do with transaction management and internal
> process control.  I assume something on the system requires postgres?
> If not you can probably just disable it using 'chkconfig', or distro's
> equivalent.
>
> HTH
>
> Ross.
>
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