Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Maybe what is happening is that an entirely unrelated process created a > segment with that ID, attached to it, and then it was deleted. I don't > know how to check however. AFAIK, EIDRM should imply that the segment has been IPC_RMID'd but still exists because there are still processes attached to it. So the thing to look for is processes still attached. Not 100% sure how to do that, but I'm sure the info is exposed under /proc somehow... regards, tom lane