Re: how to release semaphores/shared mem on hp-ux 10.20??

From: Andy Lee <alee_at_eddy.nto.telecom.com.au>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:40:06 +1000
Message-ID: <373F8185.2FB75C92@eddy.nto.telecom.com.au>

greg roody wrote:

> I'm having a problem with Oracle 8.0.4 on hp-ux 10.20. When I shut down the
> server to apply new parameters to it during tuning, the system does not
> release the shared memory and I get an error saying no space left on disk.
> When I do ipcs, it shows the segments still there owned by the oracle user.
>
> Rebooting is one way around this, but I remeber that I used to use a command
> that would release the segments, but I can't for the life of me recall it.
>
> Does anyone know the command string to do this, or am I dreaming and the
> only solution is a reboot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /greg

man ipcrm Received on Sun May 16 1999 - 21:40:06 CDT