Nginx crash !!

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:06:29PM +0500, shahzaib shahzaib wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>        We're using nginx (1.4.2) as reverse proxy in front of apache. Looks
> like nginx keeps on crashing. Is following alerts in nginx error_log are
> normal ?
> 
> 2014/02/12 11:57:12 [alert] 6076#0: ignore long locked inactive cache entry
> f88e22ec45c2a0e03dd1284a6b4fb582, count:1

No, they are not, but they are somewhat expected if nginx workers 
have previously crashed.  You should find the cause of crashes you 
see, and fix it.  Start from upgrading to latest nginx version and 
compiling without 3rd party modules.

See here for more hints:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Debugging

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/