[Glass] out of resources

[Otto Behrens]

Thanks for the response

> The way that we use shared memory resources, we have things setup so that
> the resources are deallocated when the last process detaches from the cache.
>
> So I would look around the system for rogue stoned, topaz or gem processes
> that may be hung/refusing to quit ... if you find some hanging around note
> their process ids and track down their log file...there should be
> information there as to why they are hung ...

There are no rogue stoned, topaz, gem or shared cache monitor
processes hanging around. The output from ipcs -m tells me that there
are no processes attached. eg:

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner      perms      bytes      nattch     status
0x6a0180a5 819200     wonka      660        1059602432 0
0x16018585 1146881    wonka      660        1059602432 0
0x950180a5 163844     wonka      660        1059602432 0
0xfd0180a5 458757     wonka      660        1059602432 0

The command

ipcrm -m 819200

frees up the memory instantly (the docs says that it frees up only
after the last process detatches), which is consistent with the nattch
count of 0.

> Another thing is if you 'kill -9' the shrpc monitor process, the shared
> memory segment will not be told to clean up when the last process detaches
> and the shared memore/semaphores will be left around.

No shrpc process around

> While not recommended, it is "safe" to kill -9 the stoned process as a last
> resort, you will lose any transactions that are in progress and will need to
> restore from tranlogs on restart, but kill -9 on stoned should not corrupt
> the db  ... the shrpc monitor process is really the only process that it is
> not "safe" to use kill -9 on but even then the db will not be corrupted,
> like killing the stone, you will lose any transactions in progress AND you
> will leave shared memory resources around to be cleaned up manually ...

AFAIK we are not killing processes. But we should have a very close
look to make sure.

What I can conclude from your response is that it is unexpected then
that these resources are not freed up?

Thanks
Otto