Apache failed

Hi,

We had a serious problem here and we want to avoid getting the same problem again.

We got this:

[Tue Sep 27 12:29:32.104274 2016] [core:emerg] [pid 541] (28)No space left on device: AH00023: Couldn't create the rewrite-map mutex

We fixed the problem by running this:

for i in ipcs -s | awk '/apache/ {print $2}'; do (ipcrm -s $i); done

What we can do to avoid this problem? We can not afford to make our customers loosing acces to their servers.

Thanks to help.

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Howdy -- sorry to hear you had some trouble with Apache starting!

We don't see that issue too often, though it does occur.

There's some thoughts on that, including a few options for handling it, here:

https://major.io/2007/08/24/apache-no-space-left-on-device-couldnt-creat...

You could try what they mentioned, increasing the available semaphors... or you could create a script that runs on occasion via cron that clears out all the existing ones.

Status: Active ยป Closed (fixed)