In today’s article, we will explain what the IPCS command in Linux is and what it is used for.
ipcs shows information on the inter-process communication facilities for which the calling process has read access.
By default, it shows information about all three resources: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.
1. The ipsc command displays the configured shared memory segments.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | $ ipcs -m ------ Shared Memory Segments -------- key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status 0x00000000 2392066 root 644 80 2 0x00000000 2424836 root 644 16384 2 0x00000000 2457605 root 644 280 2 0x00000000 2818063 root 644 790528 2 dest 0x00000000 2850832 root 644 790528 2 dest 0x00000000 2883601 root 644 790528 2 dest 0xe42971d4 3178514 oracle 640 6444548096 3 |