What is Semaphore? Why it is important for server admin?
When saying about the process of multi-processing in Linux its must talk about semaphore. Mostly, we used to delete unwanted documents and files in the system for allocating free space right! In the same way, depends upon the status of the semaphore in the server you can delete unwanted entries that fill up unnecessary space in your system. IPC’s are also known as a process, you can communicate easily within the system so in that case, IPC helps you to improve the communication at all times.
If you check on definitions find the exact course of semaphore such as “Common resources are controlled using data types in abstract and variables. Here, we describe semaphore as abstract data type or variables which help to use multiple programs in the operating system. Applications will have a deep process to communicate with each other. Semaphore is an interface here to communicate between each application. Admin in Linux will often see an error message called “Device has no space”. Whenever you start web server apache, semaphore shows an error message called “Device has no space”.
How to check semaphore status in the server?
To check the semaphore status in the server, you can use the command line mentioned below:
We have discussed more killing semaphore process. How to do it? Let’s have a deep explanation here:
Use the below-mentioned command to kill the process of a semaphore:
How to get configuration details for semaphore using command?
To know the exact status of semaphore use below mentioned command:
Increase the entry value /etc/sysctl.conf to change the parameter of semaphore:
By now, you have completed good research on the semaphore. So, it's your turn to make sure of all the processes listed by semaphore. Keep your system space free by deleting unwanted files and semaphores!
When saying about the process of multi-processing in Linux its must talk about semaphore. Mostly, we used to delete unwanted documents and files in the system for allocating free space right! In the same way, depends upon the status of the semaphore in the server you can delete unwanted entries that fill up unnecessary space in your system. IPC’s are also known as a process, you can communicate easily within the system so in that case, IPC helps you to improve the communication at all times.
If you check on definitions find the exact course of semaphore such as “Common resources are controlled using data types in abstract and variables. Here, we describe semaphore as abstract data type or variables which help to use multiple programs in the operating system. Applications will have a deep process to communicate with each other. Semaphore is an interface here to communicate between each application. Admin in Linux will often see an error message called “Device has no space”. Whenever you start web server apache, semaphore shows an error message called “Device has no space”.
There is a common process of communication between the child process and the apache parent. Sometimes, apache won’t work properly it means the communication held there doesn’t give a proper response. If communication fails then the process won’t start normally. Semaphore will immediately lock the memory location and it won’t release the process in the next state. In the actual case, the parent process will kill the child process. But sometimes, it won’t kill the child process and goes to the next process directly. This is because; when the server goes at a high peak the parent process won’t kill the child process properly.
Now apache server won’t be started by semaphore! We need to start the apache server manually right! It’s time to kill the child process for allowing semaphore to start the apache server now.
How to check semaphore status in the server?
To check the semaphore status in the server, you can use the command line mentioned below:
Here, you can see the semaphore status as described below:
You can see the word “nobody” here! It means the problem is with semaphore and apache server which doesn’t have proper communication between it. To make apache server work in proper mode, then we have only one solution to kill all those process.
We have discussed more killing semaphore process. How to do it? Let’s have a deep explanation here:
Use the below-mentioned command to kill the process of a semaphore:
Its must to know the apache server name for killing those semaphore process so, use the command to know the apache server name:
or
or
If you name the user apache as nobody then it kills the semaphore process.
How to get configuration details for semaphore using command?
To know the exact status of semaphore use below mentioned command:
Check on the sample listed below:
Even if you find the problem exist continuously then go with another option by increasing the parameter of semaphore.
Increase the entry value /etc/sysctl.conf to change the parameter of semaphore:
To ensure the changes made recently do run on the command sysctl -p
By now, you have completed good research on the semaphore. So, it's your turn to make sure of all the processes listed by semaphore. Keep your system space free by deleting unwanted files and semaphores!
