I am actually researching the same problem. Please take a look here: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/modwsgi/DW-SlIb07rE/discussion http://bugs.python.org/issue13156
This is a bug in python 2.7.2, and has been solved in 2.7.3. I am also affected, and will have to upgrade all my servers :( On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 11:51:44 AM UTC+1, Niphlod wrote: > > I may be out of line here, but the problem may lie in the fact that if you > want to start a subprocess usually subprocess.call uses a thread to > communicate with it..... uwsgi doesn't allow to spawn your own threads as > long as you don't supply the --enable-threads parameter. > > PS: spawning processes from a web-app poses always a lot of problems > (concurrency, pipes, stderrs, inherited socket, and so on). Be sure of what > you're doing. > > Il giorno martedì 15 gennaio 2013 06:30:14 UTC+1, Richard Penman ha > scritto: >> >> hello, >> >> I set up a uwsgi / nginx server using >> the setup-web2py-nginx-uwsgi-ubuntu.sh script. >> However I find when the app tries to start a sub-process I get this error: >> >> Fatal Python error: Couldn't create autoTLSkey mapping >> >> I read around and apparently this can happen when lack of memory. >> >> Do you see any problems with these uwsgi settings: >> <uwsgi> >> <socket>/tmp/web2py.socket</socket> >> <pythonpath>/var/www/web2py/</pythonpath> >> <mount>/=wsgihandler:application</mount> >> <master/> >> <processes>4</processes> >> <harakiri>60</harakiri> >> <reload-mercy>8</reload-mercy> >> <cpu-affinity>1</cpu-affinity> >> <stats>/tmp/stats.socket</stats> >> <max-requests>2000</max-requests> >> <limit-as>512</limit-as> >> <reload-on-as>256</reload-on-as> >> <reload-on-rss>192</reload-on-rss> >> <uid>www-data</uid> >> <gid>www-data</gid> >> <cron>0 0 -1 -1 -1 python /var/www/web2py/web2py.py -Q -S welcome -M >> -R scripts/sessions2trash.py -A -o</cron> >> <no-orphans/> >> </uwsgi> >> > --

