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From: "Spinka, Kristofer" <kspinka@style.net>
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Subject: ["PATCH"] STATUS: fcntl() oddness on Solaris
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 02:27:51 -0500
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I would like to close the following issue with a README addition.

Excerpt from STATUS:
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    * fcntl() oddness on Solaris.  Under high loads, fcntl() decides to
      return error code 46 (ENOLCK).

      httpd (prefork MPM) error log says (predictably):

      (46)No record locks available: couldn't grab the accept mutex

      All of the children report this and subsequently exits.  httpd is
now
      hosed.  AFAICT, this does not look to be an out-of-fds error.

      Solaris's man page says:
        ENOLCK
           The  cmd argument is F_SETLK, F_SETLK64, F_SETLKW,  or
           F_SETLKW64  and  satisfying the lock or unlock request
           would result in the number of locked  regions  in  the
           system exceeding a system-imposed limit.

      Justin says: What is this system-imposed limit and how do we
change it?
                   This gives me more rationale for switching the
default
                   interprocess lock mechanism to pthread (if
available).
============


Explanation:
============
  The system imposed default limit of outstanding lock requests is 512.
You can verify this by, in a contemporary version of Solaris:

	# mdb -k
	> tune_t_flckrec/D
	tune_t_flckrec:
	tune_t_flckrec: 512

  This can be increased by adding the following to /etc/system:

	set tune_t_flckrec=1024

  and rebooting.

  Of course "1024" can be any reasonable limit, although I do not know
what "reasonable" should be, so be conservative, only increase this as
necessary.
============


Notes:
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  If someone would please test this on a system known to break that
would be great.  In addition it is mentioned that *all* of the children
report this, is it actually all of them, or all of them after a certain
threshold?


  /kristofer