Re: Tracking down semaphore usage/leak

[Ken Brownfield]

Urgh, learn something new everyday (ipcs, ipcrm).  My apologies; apropos
didn't catch it on my boxes. :-(
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Ken.
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 02:09:16PM -0700, Ken Brownfield wrote:
| With RedHat's new Samba 2.0.10 RPM (the one to patch the latest 
| vulnerability) they seem to have sniffed enough glue to start using SysV 
| IPC semaphores which apparently leak until SEM??? are reached.  semget() 
| is returning "No space left on device", and disk/inodes/memory are all 
| fine.
| 
| Anyway, could someone give me a very quick rundown of the options for 
| tracking/force-freeing semaphores, or how to determine from proc, if 
| possible, what the current semaphore allocation status is?  Or did RH 
| slay a machine I really don't want to reboot?  I've restarted all 
| semaphore-using processes to no avail, but even so the SEM??? limits are 
| far above the normal needs of this machine.
| 
| Thanks much.  Searched the archives/Google/FAQ/semaphore docs; sorry if 
| it's been covered.  I'll summarize if folks want to hit me on or off the 
| list.
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| Ken.
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