Q: Get the shared memory back after crashed processes ate it?

From: <boris_at_gore.afep.cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 12:38:36 -0500

        I had a backup script go postal last night, for reasons I do understand.
The net result was that 'ps' showed about 30 instances of '/sbin/dump' that
weren't doing anything, because they were piped to processes that died. The
result of that is that various other things that I tried to do this morning
didn't work, with error messages that shmget() returned no space. (probably
because pipes are implemented using shared memory?) So I 'kill -KILL'ed the
dump processes. Net result: same error. I solved the problem by rebooting the
machine.
        Is there a way to get the shared memory back in some controlled manner?
Received on Wed Mar 13 1996 - 19:06:52 NZDT

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