...and the point of your completely irrelevant post is, what?

This is my first foray into IPC::Shareable ... and I wanted to be sure that my script was using system-resources (shared-memory) in a reasonable way.

The %Sess hash could grow to have perhaps 100 entries .... and if each entries causes another 64Kbyte shared-memory segment to be created, that would probably be not a good idea.

I couldn't understand why semaphores were being created and why, even though the hash was quite small, so many 64Kbyte segments were being created.

It is now clear that I need to be a bit more sophisticated in what I store in the shared-memory segment ...

... especially if %Sess could have many many entries

For example, perhaps it might be better to convert the hash to a string (using Data::Dumper) and it is the string that is stored in the shared-memory segment.

Thank you for the explanation.

In reply to Re: IPC::Sharable ... curious ipcs -a results by andyok
in thread IPC::Sharable ... curious ipcs -a results by andyok

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