I think it's time to get Christoph on the line and see what he has to say. The 4096 number is a limit to the system, you can have a max of 4096 shared memory segments systemwide. Do you know offhand which programs are using(abusing) shm? -d safemode wrote: > David Ford wrote: > > > No, those two are often empty. Does the total of the first group's bytes > > column match the used column of df? > > > > -d > > The sum of the Bytes used in the 4096 entries ipcs shows is WAY off from the > bytes used in df if that's what you wanted to know. df shows 109K in > use... and that's easily beaten by the first entry in ipcs > > ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- > key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status > 0x00000000 32769 root 600 503808 2 dest > 0x00000002 131074 root 600 196608 2 > 0x00000003 163843 root 600 655360 2 > 0x00000000 3997700 root 777 5240 1 dest > 0x00000000 4030469 root 777 5060 1 dest > 0x00000000 4063238 root 777 4700 1 dest > > this is the first 6 entries ... i'm not sure what you're getting at with > this though.. -- "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President
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