From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 23 9:41:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D3714D80 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:41:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA19596; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:50:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:50:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Karl Pielorz Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shared Memory under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <37C145C2.11E25528@tdx.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a couple of programs that used shared memory, they worked OK (once) - > but I have a nasty feeling I've aquired/locked some shared memory, that I > can't free now... > > A friend mentioned under Linux theres some utilities for looking at / clearing > shared memory etc. - but I can't find anything similar under FreeBSD... > > Is there any way to freeup this memory? - without rebooting the machine? man ipcs man ipcrm good luck, -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message