[ILUG] shmget failed

[John P. Looney]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:19:20PM +0100, Martin Feeney mentioned:
> On 28 Mar 00, at 12:56, John P. Looney wrote:
> 
> >  I'm getting loads of these. Any idea why ? Better yet, how I can tell
> > what I can do to fix it ?
> 
> I haven't done any shared memory stuff in ages, but if I remember 
> correctly, ipcs will tell you what shared memory segments are already 
> available.  It could be that they're not being freed correctly.

xena# ipcs

kernel not configured for shared memory

------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key       semid     owner     perms     nsems     status      

------ Message Queues --------
key       msqid     owner     perms     used-bytes  messages    

 Meep! WTF ? Better go looking at the kernel config...

Kate

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