> I've also seen this on 9206 on hp-ux 11.11. Even ipcrm > couldn't remove it, I had to bounce the production box to > release the shared memory. > Rare, but it can happen. > Maybe the reason why you couldn't remove the SHM segment even with ipcrm, was that there were still some processes attached to it. This has happened to me on HP-UX few times. NATTCH column in ipcs -ma output shows the number of processes attached to a segment. And LPID column may give some indication about the process to be killed. Tanel. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l