Red Hat Satellite Capsule server stops responding with `AH03490: scoreboard is full, not at MaxRequestWorkers.Increase ServerLimit.` error in httpd logs
Issue
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Capsule stops responding after a while with AH03490: scoreboard is full error.
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Client hosts registered to the affected Capsule encounter timeout errors when running
dnf:. . https://capsule.example.com/pulp/content/ORG/LFCE/ccv_generic_rhel7_soe_auto/content/els/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout on https://capsule.example.com/pulp/content/ORG/LFCE/ccv_generic_rhel7_soe_auto/content/els/rhel/server/7/7Server/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml: (28, 'Connection timed out after 30001 milliseconds') Trying other mirror. . . -
Restarting Satellite services on the affected Capsule temporary resolves the issue for some time, then the issue re-occurs.
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The following error is recurring in the httpd error log
/var/log/httpd/error_logon the affected Capsule:[Tue Oct 28 08:53:05.964590 2025] [mpm_event:error] [pid 2052989:tid 140478153193792] AH03490: scoreboard is full, not at MaxRequestWorkers.Increase ServerLimit.
Environment
- Red Hat Capsule 6.16.5.3
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