Re: Shutdown Abort Damages Database!

> Don't recall ever seeing semaphore or shared memory segment residual
> after a shutdown abort. But, you can check using 'ipcs -sm'. To remove

I have, serveral times, though not recently, and probably with Oracle 7.

Jared

Suzy Vordos <lvordos_at_qwest.com>
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Don't recall ever seeing semaphore or shared memory segment residual after a shutdown abort. But, you can check using 'ipcs -sm'. To remove a shared memory segment use 'ipcrm -m' and to remove semaphores use 'ipcrm -s'. Check the man pages for more details.

"Post, Ethan" wrote:
>
> OK, that was bait, I admit it.
>
> So we all know that shutdown abort doesn't damage the database. However,
do
> we have to ever worry about any UNIX shared memory segments hanging out
> there? I know we do if we end up having to kill the background procs
but is
> this ever a case with shutdown abort?
>
> Also does anyone have some good step by step instructions for cleaning
up a
> UNIX box after you kill the background procs?
>
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