On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > [note that this is possibly not am od_perl bug] > > 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? > > No space left on device: Couldn't create accept lock > > 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. > > This is on Ubuntu Hardy > > 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. > > But my question is, Come On! Shouldn't this bug be fixed by now? > > 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. > > But I got to wonder if this bug is ever going to be fixed? > > i >
