How to find a process using the ipcs shared memory segment

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Issue

  • How can I find a process using the ipcs shared memory segment?
  • I want to know which process id is using below oracle shared memory segment ?
# ipcs -m 
------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key        shmid      owner    perms      bytes      nattch     status      
0x5500052f 0          root      644       124064     1          locked
0x2f058004 32769      root      777       1024       1                       
0x610a8013 163842     root      666       4032       2                       
0x660a8013 270696451  root      666       82252      1                       
0x0000cace 8912900    root      666       2          0                       
0xc671a96c 260702213  oracle    600       899678208  29

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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