Stale IPC semephores causing problems

Hi Folks,

We use oracle 8.0.5 on HPUX 11 and run peoplesoft financials. Anyway, on rare occasions
two things happen. The temporary files on oracle partitions fill the disks up and on even rarer
occasions all semephores which could be created have been created and new applications
fail. I believe we use ipcs to view the semephores and shared memory allocation and ipcsrm
to remove undesired semephores, but I've been told that there's no surefire way to tell which
semephores to ipcsrm, "You just dig around, guess which ones to delete" I've been told. I'm
not to happy with this explanation! What should I do next? And is there a method of scripting
the removal of these damned temporary files, which are such a pain in the neck?

Thanks for any tips and tricks!

Patrick. Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 01:45:39 CDT