fred at redhotpenguin
Sep 25, 2009, 11:14 AM
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Re: Really old bugs (semaphore leak) still in Apache???
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Igor Chudov <ichudov [at] gmail> wrote:
> [note that this is possibly not am od_perl bug]
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> After a little over a month of using apache, and restarting it many times, I
> started getting errors such as this one:
Is this an apache bug, or a mod_perl bug? If it is an apache bug,
have you tried the httpd list?
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> No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock
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> The issue is nothing like what the error message suggests: it is not a space
> on device issue, the issue is that apache leaks semaphores upon restarts and
> runs out of available semaphores.
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> This is on Ubuntu Hardy
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> I had the same issue on my old Fedora box, so I quickly adapted an old shell
> function to delete all semaphores owned by www-data.
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> But my question is, Come On! Shouldn't this bug be fixed by now?
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> As of now, I added semaphore cleaning to my custom "restart apache" script.
> This script already addresses a very obnoxious issue that
> "/etc/init.d/apache2 stop" does not always stop apache2. My script does
> /etc/init.d/apache2 stop, waits 2 seconds and murders every remaining
> instance of apache2. Now it also cleans semaphores.
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> But I got to wonder if this bug is ever going to be fixed?
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