In <[🔎] 20100105073412.GA5626@earthlink.net>, Mitchell Laks wrote: >I have a remote server running debian etch, >that has only 1G of ram, (that i cannot easily add ram to), that runs >a large postgresql 7.4 database and it occasionally runs out of enough > shared memory. The database is static and I no longer add data to it. The > machine sits on the network and is just for serving up data. > >When it runs out of memory, the postgresl database shuts down and the > postgresql server will not restart. I get a message about not enough shared > memory when I try to restart postgresql. > >Now what I usually do is simply reboot the machine and everything is fine. > >While I can continue to do this, but it goes against the grain. Is there > some system command to free the shared memory so that postgresql will > start again without rebooting? These commands should help: ipcmk (1) - create various ipc resources ipcrm (1) - remove a message queue, semaphore set or shared memory id ipcs (1) - provide information on ipc facilities They are from the util-linux package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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