Thank you for the replies Marat.
On 18 April 2016 at 20:33, Marat Khalili wrote:
> Well, apparently they are used as locks (mutexes) so that multiple Apache
> processes could safely access common resources. You can guess specific
> resources by file names. (Disclaimer: I'm not an Apache develop
Well, apparently they are used as locks (mutexes) so that multiple
Apache processes could safely access common resources. You can guess
specific resources by file names. (Disclaimer: I'm not an Apache
developer, probably one of them reading this will give better answer.)
The process shouldn't
Hi Marat,
Thanks for the reply. Do you know why Apache keeps them open? The process
shouldn't need to end for the file to disappear - just the file descriptor
to be closed.
On 18 April 2016 at 16:54, Marat Khalili wrote:
> Hello David,
>
> It is a normal practice in Linux to delete temporary f
Hello David,
It is a normal practice in Linux to delete temporary files immediately
after creating them. These files will still work for the process that
keeps them open, and will automatically disappear as soon as the process
ends.
I typed lsof /run/lock on a couple of my Ubuntu machines wi
Hi,
While reviewing filesystem usage we noticed lots of deleted files still
open by Apache, as reported by lsof. Some example lines are below.
Can anyone advise why Apache is keeping these files open, and if there's
anything we can do about it? I have verified that the process numbers
listed are
