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

dharana dharana at dharana.net
Fri Apr 8 05:50:17 EDT 2005


Thank you, it works now. Maybe it should be added to the FAQ?

http://www.modpython.org/FAQ/faqw.py?req=new&section=2

Yann Ramin wrote:
> 
> You actually need to increase the amount of SysV Semaphores on your system.
> 
> I use (in /etc/sysctl.conf):
> kernel.sem = 512 32000 100 512
> (set the options in this file by running sysctl -p).
> 
> Yann
> 
> 
> dharana wrote:
> 
>> 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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