Sys_check, semaphores and shared memory

From: lawries@btinternet.com
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 07:15:38 EST


Server details: Alpha 4100 4Gb RAM 4x500Mhz CPU Tru64 V4.0f

Sys_check -all reports:
Operational: Shared memory segment with 0 attaches ( 2048 ).
This is should be investigated. This may be normal, or may mean shared memory was not properly released.

How would I investigate this?
An output from ipcs -a is below but how do I connect the sys_check comment with the troublesome segments?

Message Queues:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP CBYTES QNUM QBYTES LSPID LRPID STIME RTIME CTIME
q 0 0x41c406ec --rw------- root system root system 0 0 16384 3 23608 10:35:16 10:35:16 13:01:55

Shared Memory:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NATTCH SEGSZ CPID LPID ATIME DTIME CTIME
m 100352 0x526a4801 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 75 1895825408 31498 28526 10:30:02 10:30:02 18:15:05
m 100353 0x526a4802 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 75 620756992 31498 28526 10:30:02 10:30:02 18:15:21
m 100354 0x526a4803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix root informix 75 8388608 31821 28526 10:30:02 10:30:02 18:15:35
m 6147 0x52654801 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 63 436207616 2389 20998 9:50:37 9:50:37 17:15:33
m 6148 0x52654802 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 63 1031798784 2389 20998 9:50:37 9:50:37 17:15:36
m 6149 0x52654803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix root informix 63 8388608 2607 20998 9:50:37 9:50:37 17:15:47
m 6 0x52744801 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 16 125829120 305 10874 5:39:50 5:39:50 13:05:17
m 7 0x52744802 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 16 58720256 305 10874 5:39:50 5:39:50 13:05:18
m 8 0x52744803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix root informix 16 8388608 305 10874 5:39:50 5:39:50 13:05:23
m 9 0x527e4801 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 16 125829120 333 14501 5:38:52 5:38:52 13:05:44
m 10 0x527e4802 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 16 33554432 333 14501 5:38:52 5:38:52 13:05:45
m 11 0x527e4803 --rw-rw-rw- root informix root informix 16 8388608 333 14501 5:38:52 5:38:52 13:05:51
m 12 0x3253bc5c --rw-rw-rw- root system root system 2 648 684 692 13:06:14 13:06:14 13:06:14
m 34829 0x1df9f00 --rw-rw-rw- patrol patrol patrol patrol 0 2048 5952 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:05:28
m 22542 0x1df9f88 --rw-rw-rw- patrol patrol patrol patrol 0 2080 5952 5952 16:07:27 16:07:27 16:05:28
m 182287 0x41df9a3f --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 2656 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 10:42:46
m 524304 0x41df9a3e --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 2284 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 14:10:46
m 165905 0x41df9a3b --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 256 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 10:43:46
m 288786 0x41df9a3d --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 105864 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 23:59:47
m 22547 0x41df9a40 --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 804 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 10:43:47
m 8212 0x41df9a41 --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 256 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 10:43:47
m 16405 0x41df9a42 --rw-rw-rw- root patrol root patrol 0 256 32602 32602 10:56:46 10:56:46 10:43:47
m 335894 0x41df9df5 --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 126516 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 19:20:30
m 8215 0x41df9e00 --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 2284 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 11:36:29
m 4120 0x41df9dfb --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 968 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:06:29
m 6169 0x41df9dfc --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 804 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:06:29
m 294938 0x41df9c14 --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 4956 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:06:29
m 4123 0x41df9dc1 --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 256 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:06:29
m 8220 0x41df9dfa --rw-rw-rw- patrol system patrol system 0 256 6045 6045 10:36:29 10:36:29 16:06:29
m 29 0x61c401df --rw------- root daemon root daemon 0 46128 95 95 9:48:22 9:48:23 9:48:22
m 30 0x527e4804 --rw-rw---- root informix root informix 16 8388608 333 14501 5:38:52 5:38:52 9:11:48

Semaphores:
T ID KEY MODE OWNER GROUP CREATOR CGROUP NSEMS OTIME CTIME
s 0 0x41c406ec --ra------- root system root system 1 13:01:55 13:01:55
s 401409 0 --ra-ra---- root informix root informix 77 10:36:56 18:15:21
s 401410 0 --ra-ra-ra- root informix root informix 52 no-entry 18:15:35
s 24579 0 --ra-ra---- root informix root informix 64 10:36:56 17:15:36
s 24580 0 --ra-ra-ra- root informix root informix 52 no-entry 17:15:47
s 5 0 --ra-ra---- root informix root informix 17 9:50:09 13:05:18
s 6 0 --ra-ra-ra- root informix root informix 52 no-entry 13:05:23
s 7 0 --ra-ra---- root informix root informix 17 10:35:04 13:05:45
s 8 0 --ra-ra-ra- root informix root informix 52 no-entry 13:05:51
s 1130505 0x81df9f00 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:28
s 524298 0x81df9f88 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 16:07:27 16:05:28
s 393227 0xc1df9e00 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:28
s 114700 0xc1df9df5 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:07:27
s 73741 0xc1df9c14 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:36
s 65550 0xc1df9dfb --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:38
s 57359 0xc1df9dfc --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:38
s 65552 0xc1df9dc1 --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:38
s 65553 0xc1df9dfa --ra-ra-ra- patrol patrol patrol patrol 2 10:36:29 16:05:38
s 2474002 0x61c401df --ra------- root daemon root daemon 1 9:48:23 9:48:22

Many thanks for your advice

Lawrie.



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