System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

Using ipcs

How to Use ipcs

Use the ipcs utility to display information about active interprocess communication (IPC) facilities. See the ipcs(1) man page for more information.

You can use ipcs with the -J option to see which project's limit an IPC object is allocated against.


# ipcs -J
    IPC status from <running system> as of Wed Mar 26 18:53:15 PDT 2003
T         ID      KEY        MODE       OWNER    GROUP    PROJECT
Message Queues:
Shared Memory:
m       3600      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m        201      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m       1802      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m        503      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m        304      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m        605      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m          6      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
m        107      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files
Semaphores:
s          0      0       --rw-rw-rw-   uname    staff    x-files