From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 15:57:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.knight-trosoft.com (mail.knight-trosoft.com [209.180.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB7514D7D; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 15:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johnp@knight-trosoft.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.knight-trosoft.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) id RAA28759; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:56:03 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 17:56:03 -0500 (CDT) From: John Prince Message-Id: <199908042256.RAA28759@mail.knight-trosoft.com> To: carol@tinker.com, luis@cantv.net Subject: Re: Troubles with Apache on FreeBSD Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <37A8B6A0.886134D9@tinker.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can view/change limits with `sh'. ulimit Soft Limits ulimit -H Hard Limits.. Further info .. man sh look for ulimit. --john > From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 16:57:30 1999 > Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:54:40 -0500 > From: Carol Deihl > To: Luis Moreno > Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Troubles with Apache on FreeBSD > > Hi Luis, > > It's likely that the "limit" for number of processes is being > exceeded. From a csh (not an sh), as root, execute these commands: > limit > limit -h > The "-h" version gives the hard limits that are compiled in the > kernel, while the plain version gives the "soft" limits (e.g. what > it's running with now). When I ran into this same problem, I > foung that the hard limit for maxproc was 2067, while the soft > limit was only 64. > > The solution is to start your web server from a csh script (not > an sh script, since sh on 2.2.x FBSD doesn't have a limit command). > In the script, put something like > limit maxproc 1024 > (or some value less than the number you found with limit -h) > before the command that starts the web server. This resolved our > problem. Interesting, when we ran into the problem, it was when > there were about 133 processes running (similar to your 126). > > Hope this helps, > Carol > > > Luis Moreno wrote: > > > > Hello there. > > > > Iīm runing Apache Web Server/1.3.0 with Ben-SSL/1.19 and > > FrontPage/3.0.4.2 PHP/3.0.6 on FreeBSD 2.2.6 > > > > A snapshot of the head of top command is like this: > > Last pid: 8175; load averages: 0.71, 0.19, 0.06 > > 17:15:22 > > 126 processes: 2 running, 124 sleeping CPU states: 3.1% user, 0.0% > > nice, 3.5% system, 1.2% interrupt, 92.2% idle > > Mem: 137M Active, 44M Inact, 30M Wired, 39M Cache, 8348K Buf, 788K Free > > Swap: 512M Total, 64K Used, 512M Free > > > > The server seems to be ok, but eventualy Iīm geting problems with the > > execution of cgi scriptīs. This is the error message from the error > > Apache logs > > [Wed Aug 4 17:13:17 1999] [error] (35)Resource temporarily unavailable: > > couldn't spawn child process: /var/www/cgi-bin/Count.cgi > > > > Did anybody getīs the same? > > > > Thanks in advance for yor help. > > > > Luis. > > > -- > Carol Deihl - carol@tinker.com > Shrier and Deihl - Unix Network Admin and Internet Software Development > http://www.tinker.com/ - Tinker Internet Services > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message