Such as how to display these:

number of message queue IDs : 4,096
bytes per message : 8,192
bytes per message queue : 65,536
messages per message queue : 8,192

You might want to read the manpage of "ipcs", which can provide many sorts of lists and/or totals of the various IPC-facilities. As an example, from the manpage:

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thank you, however, I need the summary of "number of message queue IDs ", wants showed as :

number of message queue IDs : 4,096
bytes per message : 8,192
bytes per message queue : 65,536
messages per message queue : 8,192

The limits are in the system manuals but getconf might show it.

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