Posted by Unni on 11/14/52 11:51

Hello all,

I m facing a memory related problem with semaphores. Our business
application uses semaphores extensively and the limit imposed by the OS
on the number of semaphores that can exist on the system is only 128.

This could be increased to a higher value but that would not be a
permanant solution to my belief. We are using the sem_get, sem_acquire
php functions. After the use we are releasing the semaphore by using
sem_release.

The problem is that the semaphore will remain on the system until it is
rebooted. And once the limit of 128 semaphores is reached, any attemt
to create a new semaphore will result in a "No space left on device"
error.

Can anybody help with any solutions in this regard.

Thanks

Ratheesh K J

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