shared memory release...

[Chuck Swiger]

Tim Traver wrote:
> Ok, I am running a 4.7 FreeBSD box that is a web server running apache.
> 
> It looks like some module that I have is leaking memory, and eventually, 
> apache crashes on restarts becuase of this error :
> 
> shmget() failed:  No space left on device
> 
> which means it can't get any more memory, which I understand.

SysV shared memory is a limited resource which has tunables you need to set or 
adjust in your kernel config file.  It's not the same as physical RAM.

> When I look at the top list, it shows me something like this :
> 
> Mem: 140M Active, 879M Inact, 151M Wired, 181M Cache, 199M Buf, 660M Free

top is measuring something else, here.

-- 
-Chuck