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IPCS Shared Memory, Message Queues and Semaphores

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IPCS Message Queues

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IPCS Shared Memory

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ipcs -qa displays information about IPCS-Queues

ipcs -qa |grep -v "0 0" lists only IPCS-Queues which have waiting messages (There are 5 spaces between "0 0")

A value "1" for QNUM means, that there is one message waiting behind that message which is currently being processed (active); that means that there are indeed 2 messages in that queue.

ipcs -aq -D0 ("D-Zero") prints content of the message queues

IPCS Semaphores

Parameter	Description
semmni	Number of semaphore identifiers
semmns	Number of semaphores in system
semmsl	Maximum number of semaphores per ID
semmnu	Number of undo structures in system