Wander if anyone has experienced the same issue. Yesterday the Apache server stopped working on one of our servers. It looks like mod_gzip was not being able to delete the wrk files and the /tmp directory got full of junk, this rendered the "/" partition full and Apache failed.

Any ideas as to why this happened? We deleted the wrk files, but in just a few seconds mod_gzip filled the directory again. I had to disabled mod_gzip in order to correct the problem.

I would really appreciate any help or advise with this.

Thanks.

Do you have in your httpd.conf

mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No ?

Yes, absolutely. The httpd.conf file looks like this:



<IfModule mod_gzip.c>
mod_gzip_on yes
mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 1002
mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 0
mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 100000
mod_gzip_item_include file .htm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .html$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtml$
mod_gzip_item_include file .shtm$
mod_gzip_item_include file .php$
mod_gzip_item_include file .pl$
mod_gzip_item_include file .cgi$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime text/.*
mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-httpd-php
mod_gzip_item_include mime httpd/unix-directory
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^perl-script$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-status$
mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-info$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .css$
mod_gzip_item_exclude file .js$
mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*
mod_gzip_dechunk yes
mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp
mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No
mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes
</IfModule>