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Date:      Sun, 11 Aug 1996 16:26:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Gary Roberts <wangel@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.960811162611.3856A-100000@wgrobez1.remote.louisville.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199608112015.NAA24046@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > Is it possible to 'clean the shared memory pool'? 
> > 
> > On running some programs(Mainly linux apps) I get errors that there is no
> > shared memory available.  Of course the program runs fine 2 or 3 times,
> > but after that, well, I have to reboot :(
> 
> 1)	The programs should remove the shared memory segment when they
> 	exit.  This is not a resource tracked by _exit (for obvious
> 	reasons: if process A and process B and process C share a
> 	segment, and C exits, you don't want to screw A & B).
> 
> 2)	If you can't fix the software to use the interfaces in the
> 	way they are documented as being required to be used, then
> 	you should:
> 
> 	man ipcrm
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 
Right.  But they aren't cleaning the memory.  So I have to run ipcrm each
time.  Which is ok.  It's not a big deal ...

Thanks for all the responses, I got it fixed... sorta =)

Gary Roberts
System Admin. -- Altered Reality.
http://136.165.243.183 -- Main User Pages
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