just a guess here, but i think we're talking about inter-
process communication channels (pipes, semaphores, and
shared-memory segments).
yes/no/maybe?
-jdr-
Richard Adams wrote:
>
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Tomi Manninen OH2BNS wrote about, Re: no more ipc channels:
> > On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Kjell Jarl wrote about, no more ipc channels:
> > > >
> > > > After using /usr/bin/node alot (I am learning script writing...) I am
> > > > getting:
> > > >
> > > > [sm7gvf@pc2 test2]$ node
> > > > LINUX:SM7GVF-5} ipc_open: Could not get an IPC channel: No space left on
> > > > device
> > >
> > > This indicates that the partition on which the software operates is full.
> >
> > No it does NOT ! It means that the system is out of IPC channels.
>
> Well all i can say is it must have been a co-insidence then, as i have had
> this happen to me, my disk was "FULL" and i got the very same error messge.
>
> I deleted some stuff umounted the filesystem ran fsck remounted started all
> the deamons and all was well, the error went away never to bee seen again.
>
> Thats why i said what i did, as to why it happened i dont know, only that
> the partition was full.
>
> > Kjell, have you by any chance been killing node with something like
> > "kill -KILL" or otherwise made it terminate abnormally while testing your
> > stuff? Node used to have a bug that caused it to leak IPC channels but
> > that should be fixed (see the HISTORY file).
> >
> > Note that node not getting a free IPC channel is not a fatal bug. At least
> > not to node. Only the the "TAlk" command is affected (disabled). Some
> > other software on your system might however need a free channel too...
> >
> > > > RH 6.0, node 0.3.0 and alot of other stuff (clx/postgresql). Kernel
> > > > 2.2.5.
> >
> > I seem to have vague recollection that clx has had problems with IPC
> > channels as well. I'm not sure however as I don't run it my self.
> >
> > --
> > --- Tomi Manninen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / OH2BNS @ OH2RBI.FIN.EU ---
> --
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