Re: [HACKERS] IPC Memory problem with Postmaster on BSDi 4.x

> >I am running BSDI here. Try using pgsql/bin/ipcclean to remove the
> >current shared memory stuff. Seems the old version did not clean up its
> >shared memory.
>
> Thanks Bruce
>
> I tried to do that and it worked just fine the first time, and after that I
> wrote "ipcs" to get a statistical if it really was cleaned or not, but I
> got this ->
>
> Message Queues:
> T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
>
> Shared Memory:
> T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
> m 1376259 0 --rwa------ postgres postgres
> m 131076 0 --rw------- postgres user
> m 786437 0 --rw------- postgres postgres
>
> Semaphores:
> T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP
>
> Now I tried to use "ipcclean" once again, and I am always getting these
> errors ->
>
> ipcrm: shmid(1376259): : Invalid argument
> ipcrm: shmid(131076): : Invalid argument
> ipcrm: shmid(786437): : Invalid argument
>
> I have no idea why, except maybe this could be something that is left over
> since old and now the system doesn't know how to remove this Postgres stuff.
>
> If anyone have any clue about what I can do, please let me know, I would
> appreciate it a lot.

Go to /tmp, and do a ls -la. There will be some file in there that are
left over that should be deleted. But now that I look, they aren't in
/tmp anymore in 4.0. Use ipcs and ipcrm to manually delete them.

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