Thank you Tom. Here are the results.
[root@atl01371 linux]# ipcs
------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
0x0052e2ca 36864 postgres 700 144 5
0x0052e2c1 26625 postgres 600 1104896 5
0x0052e2c7 37890 postgres 600 66060 5
------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key semid owner perms nsems status
0x0052e2ce 6144 postgres 600 16
0x0052e2cf 6145 postgres 600 16
------ Message Queues --------
key msqid owner perms used-bytes messages
These values don't seem to change from one moment to the next although
there are of course varying numbers of backends running at any given
moment.
Since I am unfamiliar with this output I hesitate to use icprm to remove
something which ought not be removed.
I have not used kill -9 on anything. :)
Tom Lane wrote:
>
> DHSC Webmaster <webmaster@dhs-club.com> writes:
> > It would appear that either my icps is not working or that everything is
> > alright.
>
> Try it as root. I think on Linux, ipcs won't show shm segments that you
> do not have read access to (a mighty braindead way to do it but...)
>
> regards, tom lane
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