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Re: POSIX shared memory support


  • From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
  • To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
  • Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: POSIX shared memory support
  • Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:54:12 -0400
  • Message-id: <19364.1206993252@sss.pgh.pa.us> <text/plain>

Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> Right, I had an idea about that but didn't really want to clutter the
> response to the general idea with it.  At least on Linux (I don't know
> if it's the case elsewhere..), creating a POSIX shm ends up creating an
> actual 'file' in /dev/shm/, which you might be able to count the
> hard-links to in order to get an idea of the number of processes using
> it?  It was just a thought that struck me, not sure if it's at all
> possible.

That's not gonna work on anything but Linux, AFAIK.

			regards, tom lane



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