Shared memory command remembered

[se at panix.com (Scott Ehrlich)]

Hello Derek and Discuss:

Having gone through various man pages, I finally recalled the commands I
was searching for - ipcs and ipcrm.

Scott


On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Derek Martin wrote:

> > P.S. There was a command I used to use which showed shared memory
> > allocation, and I think some variants of it to delete zombied allocations. 
> > Can someone please refresh my memory of it?   Thanks.
> 
> The free command will show shared memory, though it won't break it
> down.  You can't remove zombie processes... they'll hang around until
> their parent decides to clean them up, or until the system is rebooted, or
> some such thing.  The good news is they aren't really there, and take up
> almost no system resources.
> 
> 
> -- 
> You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
> It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Derek D. Martin              |  Unix/Linux Geek
> ddm at MissionCriticalLinux.com |  derek at cerberus.ne.mediaone.net
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 

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