Re: Shared Memory Segments are not removed

From: "Arshad, Shehla" <SArshad@purolator.com> > >I have seen this problem quite a few times on two of our HP-UX 11 servers >running IDS 7.30.FC7 and was wondering if somebody has also encountered >this. Sometimes, shared memory segments do not get removed at the O/S level >after Informix shutdown. ipcs -m shows these segments flagged with "D" >under >mode column. Removing these segments using ipcrm does not work either. > >What could be the cause of this? And how to avoid it? Several questions occur: 1. Are you running ipcrm as root? 2. Have you tried running onmode -ky repeatedly (even though it says the server is already down)? 3. Do you not perhaps have another instance configured of which you are not aware? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com