tmpfs /dev/shm - file deletion and size determination
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According to Redhat doc's /dev/shm is 1/2 the physical memory assigned to the server. So, from your 'df' output you should have 64Gb memory in use. /dev/shm is used to store 'Shared Memory' pages for applications running on the server, but it stores the pages in memory so its faster to access. So, no, I wouldn't delete files from here, you could use 'lsof' to check on file/page usage but deleting them seems a little extreme. If you can reboot, then this would safely clean /dev/shm.
According to Redhat doc's /dev/shm is 1/2 the physical memory assigned to the server. So, from your 'df' output you should have 64Gb memory in use. /dev/shm is used to store 'Shared Memory' pages for applications running on the server, but it stores the pages in memory so its faster to access. So, no, I wouldn't delete files from here, you could use 'lsof' to check on file/page usage but deleting them seems a little extreme. If you can reboot, then this would safely clean /dev/shm.
HTH
Stuart.
Stuart:
Thanks. The issue we are having is that Oracle says it does not have enough memory to start. We were trying to determine if this is because of stale/leftover files in /dev/shm that were being counted as part of the free/available stats. We only started having this problem recently and this is when we noticed these leftover files. So this is why we are trying to determine if we can delete or even if RH is counting these in the free/availalble memory stats.
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