03-17-2008
Not necessarily a problem, but probably a problem. A shared memory segment will not go away until explicitly removed. Most likely the process died without cleaning up. This is often caused by newbie sysadmins who jump into "kill -9". "ipcs -mb" will tell you how much memory is being consumed. "ipcrm" can get rid of it.
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