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ipcs

Show information about the usage of XSI IPC facilities: shared memory segments, message queues, and semaphore arrays.

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Examples

Show information about all active IPC facilities GNU

ipcs

Show information about active shared memory segments, message queues or semaphore sets GNU

ipcs --shmems|--queues|--semaphores

Show full details on the resource with a specific ID GNU

ipcs --shmems|--queues|--semaphores [-i|--id] resource_id

Show limits in bytes or in a human-readable format GNU

ipcs [-l|--limits] --bytes|--human

Show summary about current usage GNU

ipcs [-u|--summary]

Show creator's and owner's UIDs and PIDs for all IPC facilities GNU

ipcs [-c|--creator]

Show the PID of the last operators for all IPC facilities GNU

ipcs [-p|--pid]

Show last access times for all IPC facilities GNU

ipcs [-t|--time]

Show information about all the IPC

ipcs -a

Show information about active shared memory segments, message queues or semaphore sets

ipcs -m|-q|-s

Show information on maximum allowable size in bytes

ipcs -b

Show creator's user name and group name for all IPC facilities

ipcs -c

Show the pID of the last operators for all IPC facilities

ipcs -p

Show access times for all IPC facilities

ipcs -t

Show outstanding usage for active message queues, and shared memory segments

ipcs -o