[mod_python] Error:Failed to reinit global mutex

I think this is because on startup Python can open a boatload of files
while importing modules. I'd just up kern.maxfiles and
kern.maxfilesperproc, especially if your apache is configured to start a
lot of children upfront.

Just FYI, my settings are:

kern.maxfiles: 32808
kern.maxfilesperproc: 29527

and I don't think there is much harm in taking it much higher for a heavy
load production system.

Grisha

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Ben wrote:

> this might be more of an OS or Apache question but....
>
> i'm debugging something right now which seems to crash apache /
> mod_python.  probably something i'm doing, i'm sure.  anyhow, it
> wouldn't be much of a problem except that when it crashes, i can't
> restart the server without rebooting.  i get errors like:
>
> [Thu Mar 11 10:08:51 2004] [notice] mod_python: Creating 32 session mutexes based on 50 max processes and 0 max threads.
> (24)Too many open files: mod_python: Failed to reinit global mutex /tmp/mpmtx84815.
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> [Thu Mar 11 10:08:52 2004] [error] make_obcallback: could not import mod_python.apache.
>
> ImportError: No module named mod_python.apache
> [Thu Mar 11 10:10:38 2004] [error] (24)Too many open files: apr_accept: (client socket)
>
> i've cleaned up /tmp/mpm*, /var/run/httpd.scoreboard, etc.  i've also
> verified that in fact
>
> kern.openfiles: 68
> kern.maxfiles: 12328
>
> and raised the openfiles limit on the www process, and checked lsof
> which says there isn't much open.  so it looks like some kind of
> shared memory / locking thing, except that ipcs tells me not much: i
> guess it's not a sysv ipc thing.
>
> does anyone know how to clean house for this kind of stuff?
>
> B
>
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