[mod_python] No space left on device: Failed to create global mutex

dharana dharana at dharana.net
Fri Apr 8 04:36:43 EDT 2005


This morning after some tests I noticed hda1 was running out of space 
(236Mb left) so I cleaned it and tried to restart apache. Then apache 
died and this is was the logs say:


/var/log # tail /usr/local/hosting/logs/error_log
[Fri Apr 08 10:30:07 2005] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Apr 08 10:30:08 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 32 session 
mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Fri Apr 08 10:30:08 2005] [error] (28)No space left on device: 
mod_python: Failed to create global mutex 0 of 32 (/tmp/mpmtx27
090).
Configuration Failed
[Fri Apr 08 10:31:07 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
/usr/local/hosting/bin/suexec)
[Fri Apr 08 10:31:07 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
authentication ...
[Fri Apr 08 10:31:07 2005] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Apr 08 10:31:08 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 32 session 
mutexes based on 150 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Fri Apr 08 10:31:08 2005] [error] (28)No space left on device: 
mod_python: Failed to create global mutex 0 of 32 (/tmp/mpmtx27
460).
Configuration Failed



I believe it has plenty of space:

/var/log # LC_ALL=en df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             5.5G  4.6G  709M  87% /
/dev/hdc1             113G   74G   33G  69% /var
/dev/hda2              30G   17G   12G  58% /var/backups


/var/log # LC_ALL=en df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             732960  174583  558377   24% /
/dev/hdc1            15089664  150185 14939479    1% /var
/dev/hda2            4030464  122784 3907680    4% /var/backups



Before I got this error I created 10000+ files in /tmp but deleted them 
afterwards (testing FileSession).

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