Many, many times this is when you fill up on IPCS (semaphores and/or shared memory). Use 'ipcs -a' to see what your current limits and usage is. > On Mar 11, 2016, at 2:45 PM, Mitchell Smith <Mitchell.Smith@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > I have a strange issue with Apache (2.2.23), fronting a svn repository > > Sometimes the system runs perfect for months between issues, others it’s a matter of days. Could anyone shed any light on whats could be causing this issue. I’ve found many posts online where people raise the issue, but none where its actually tracked down to its root cause and resoloution. Most seem to just result is ‘Restarted it and it worked’ > > > When the disk has over 100GB spare on the SVN storage disk, and 10GB tmpfs /tmp spare…. I get the following error logged like: > > [Tue Mar 08 18:31:31 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:31:31 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-5t9C5Y': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:31:31 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-5t9C5Y': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:36:50 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:36:50 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-JAMh9d': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:36:50 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-JAMh9d': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:37:01 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:37:01 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-VmFoHr': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:37:01 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-VmFoHr': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:38:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:38:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-VvPNxp': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:38:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-VvPNxp': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:53:58 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:53:58 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-6dZ1ca': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:53:58 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-6dZ1ca': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:58:23 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:58:23 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-eKJfBS': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:58:23 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-eKJfBS': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:59:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:59:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-121CkB': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 18:59:30 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-121CkB': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 19:02:03 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 19:02:03 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-taCjge': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 19:02:03 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-taCjge': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 20:31:23 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 20:31:23 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-1CNqAP': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 20:31:23 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] Can't close file '/tmp/svn-1CNqAP': No space left on device [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 20:40:45 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] A failure occurred while driving the update report editor [500, #28] > [Tue Mar 08 20:40:45 2016] [error] [client 192.168.228.33] Can't set position pointer in file '/tmp/svn-x9g0wN': No space left on device [500, #28] > > Which after some time appears to progress to the following error > > [Wed Mar 09 18:31:30 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] The state report gatherer could not be created. [500, #200029] > [Wed Mar 09 18:31:30 2016] [error] [client 172.21.73.66] Couldn't perform atomic initialization [500, #200029] > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated > > Thanks > Mitchell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx