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Viewing shared segments created by shmget
I'm trying to "visualize" shared memory between two processes. I've created a little server-client example where the client writes some data to a shared memory location and the server reads from it. ...
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What is “SYSV00000000”?
In my dmesg this appeared when my window manager (xfwm4, part of XFCE) crashed:
xfwm4[3936]: segfault at 7f3c7c523770 ip 00007f3c7c523770 sp 00007ffffea1ee28 error 15 in SYSV00000000 ...
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Linux - why is kernel.shmall so low by default?
I run DB2 on Linux where I have to allocate the vast majority of memory on the machine to shared memory segments.
This page is typical of the info that I've found about shmall/shmmax:
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What are shmpages in laymans terms?
What exactly are shmpages in the grand scheme of kernel and memory terminology. If I'm hitting a shmpages limit, what does that mean?
I'm also curious if this applies to more than linux
