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On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 16:29:17 GMT, you wrote:
>Hi, I just noticed that unix command ipcs -a, which is supposed to show all
>semaphores ,queues and shared memory activities showed me NOTHING. Although I
>started oracle and running it, have some performance problems.
>
>Any idea what went wrong?
>
You aren't in the right group when you ran the ipcs -a command. ipcs only shows you what you are allowed to see. Consider:
# ipcs -a
IPC status from <running system> as of Tue Sep 8 14:08:44 1998
Message Queue facility not in system.
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH
SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME
Shared Memory:
m 1000 0x0e3dfecc --rw-r----- oracle8 dba oracle8 dba 12
44941312 16048 7954 14:08:38 14:08:39 4:54:59
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS
OTIME CTIME
Semaphores:
s 327680 00000000 --ra-r----- oracle8 dba oracle8 dba 100
14:08:30 4:55:00
# su - nobody
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.6 Generic August 1997
$ ipcs -a
IPC status from <running system> as of Tue Sep 8 14:08:57 1998
Message Queue facility not in system.
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH
SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME
Shared Memory:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS
OTIME CTIME
Semaphores:
$
Root can see everything but 'nobody' cannot. My Oracle software account could see it (you don't need root, you just need the right privs in the OS).
>Cemal
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