[TriLUG] apt and mirrors.trilug inaccessible.

[Mike Mueller]

On Monday 10 November 2003 11:09, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 10:37, James Manning wrote:
> > > Anyone know why I can't access the trilug apt repository or the html
> > > page?
> >
> > it's being fixed :)
>
> Okay, the problem has been resolved.  Thanks Frank and James for
> noticing the problem.
>
> Apparently Apache (or more specifically, the "mm" component) has a bug
> in which it will not release semaphores properly.  The kernel eventually
> runs out of semaphores, resulting in the error shown (semget: No space
> left on device)  -- the "no space left on device" is not really correct,
> there just isn't apparently an errno for "out of semaphores".
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=74543
>
> The workaround was to increase the number of available sempahores, by
> editing /etc/sysctl.conf and running "sysctl -p" as described in that
> bugzilla bug.
>
> --Jeremy

40 minutes to isolate a kernel resource exhaustion problem and fix it!  
You're not in the same building. No phones. Three emails.  

I stand awed.

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