Ok, this may be one of the dumbest "I didnt RTFM" type question, and mabye Im a bit confused on how shmem works, but I am utilizing IPC::Shareable in a program of mine to store a hash of hashes into memory, so the next time the program runs, it can do what it was needs to do and see what has changed within the hash.
Here is the stuff that gets tied into memory 
use IPC::Shareable;
my %peering;
my %lastpeering;
my %options_now = (
                create          => 'yes',
                exclusive       => 'no',
                mode            => 0666,
                destroy         => 'no'
              );
my %options_then = (
                create          => 'yes',
                exclusive       => 'no',
                mode            => 0666,
                destroy         => 'no'
               );

tie %lastpeering, 'IPC::Shareable', $glue,  \%options2  or die "tie fa
+iled\n";
tie %peering, 'IPC::Shareable', $glue, \%options or die "tie failed\n"
+;

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....... Ok everything is fine and dandy, I can get the information back fine on the next run and see what was in %lastpeering from memory, but uhhh: 
ipcs

------ Shared Memory Segments --------
key       shmid     owner     perms     bytes     nattch    status    
+  
0x30787566 896513    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x0000715f 896515    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x0004d733 896516    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x000d0241 896517    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00001058 896518    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x000f1708 896519    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00078ab1 896520    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00023842 896521    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00011d03 896522    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00094861 896523    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x000c10f3 896524    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x0000e876 896525    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x00023a9c 896526    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   
0x000071f6 896527    mthomas   666       65536     0                  
+   

------ Semaphore Arrays --------
key       semid     owner     perms     nsems     status      
0x30787566 896640    mthomas   666       2         
0x0000715f 896642    mthomas   666       2         
0x0004d733 896643    mthomas   666       2         
0x000d0241 896644    mthomas   666       2         
0x00001058 896645    mthomas   666       2         
0x000f1708 896646    mthomas   666       2         
0x00078ab1 896647    mthomas   666       2         
0x00023842 896648    mthomas   666       2         
0x00011d03 896649    mthomas   666       2         
0x00094861 896650    mthomas   666       2         
0x000c10f3 896651    mthomas   666       2         
0x0000e876 896652    mthomas   666       2         
0x00023a9c 896653    mthomas   666       2         
0x000071f6 896654    mthomas   666       2

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That was only after one run of the program, (I cleared all previous from mem manually using ipcrm), now my question is, is it SUPPOSED to do that? It looks as if its creating a new memory handle for each $blah{new memory}{new memory}{new memory}, as I stated before, the hash in which I am attempting to put into memory is a hash of hash's. Any input would be grand! Thanks,
Mark

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