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To: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
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Subject: Re: SysV Shared Memory 
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 22:44:52 -0800
From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> writes:
> Due to what can only be dubbed Poor Programming Practice (TM), I
> accumulate a large number of shared memory segments as shown by `ipcs
> -m`. I suspect the vast majority of these active segments are due to
> Netscape Navigator.
> 
> Is there a way to deactive these segments, so they can be cleaned up? Or
> do I remove them?

RTFM: ipcrm(1):

     ipcrm - remove the specified message queues, semaphore sets, and shared
     segments

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