On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 16:40 -0700, Shay, Daniel wrote: > We have been running a FC4/PPC64 machine where we have run into the > following issues with POSIX message queues. > > -An application fails to close/unlink queues, allowing the machine the > reach the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max limit. I don't know how to > cleanup message queues let open after process dies. Note: ipcs doesn't > seem to work with POSIX message queues. It should. "ipcrm -Q" or "ipcrm -q" should do it. > -The default /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_max is set to 10, we would like to > have this set to 100 when the machine is rebooted Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add the lines: # Increase message queue fs.mqueue.msg_max = 100 > I've noticed POSIX message queues are relatively new to the Linux 2.6 > kernel, is the support just not finished? I think it's done. I could be wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Tempt not the dragons of fate, since thou art crunchy and taste - - good with ketchup. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------