diff --git a/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/publish.php b/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/publish.php
index 66d42ac9e..89f79b545 100644
--- a/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/publish.php
+++ b/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/include/publish.php
@@ -25,16 +25,34 @@ function curl_socket($socket, $url, $message='') {
 }
 
 function publish($endpoint, $message, $len=1) {
+  if ( is_file("/tmp/nginxStopped") )
+    return false;
+
   $com = curl_init("http://localhost/pub/$endpoint?buffer_length=$len");
   curl_setopt_array($com,[
     CURLOPT_UNIX_SOCKET_PATH => "/var/run/nginx.socket",
     CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => ['Accept:text/json'],
     CURLOPT_POST => 1,
     CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => $message,
-    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1
+    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => 1,
+    CURLOPT_FAILONERROR => true
   ]);
   $reply = curl_exec($com);
+  $err = curl_error($com);
   curl_close($com);
+  if ($err) {
+    preg_match_all("/[0-9]+/",$err,$matches);
+    // 500: out of shared memory when creating a channel
+    // 507: out of shared memory publishing a message
+    // nginx automatically starts when OS detects its not running
+
+    if ( ($matches[0][0] ?? "") == 507 || ($matches[0][0] ?? "") == 500 ) {
+      my_logger("Nchan out of shared memory.  Restarting nginx");
+      // prevent multiple attempts at restarting
+      touch("/tmp/nginxStopped");
+      exec("/etc/rc.d/rc.nginx stop");
+    }
+  }
   if ($reply===false) my_logger("curl to $endpoint failed", 'publish');
   return $reply;
 }