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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 1999 15:11:03 -0500 (CDT)
From:      <phill@cobia.gulf.net>
To:        John Prince <johnp@knight-trosoft.com>
Cc:        carol@tinker.com, luis@cantv.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Troubles with Apache on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9908051510440.6586-100000@cobia.corp.gulf.net>
In-Reply-To: <199908042256.RAA28759@mail.knight-trosoft.com>

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Can't you just do something in /etc/login.conf for the http user?

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, John Prince wrote:

> 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 <carol@tinker.com>
> > To: Luis Moreno <luis@cantv.net>
> > 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:
> > =09limit
> > =09limit -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
> > =09limit 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:
> > >=20
> > > Hello there.
> > >=20
> > > I=B4m 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
> > >=20
> > > 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 Fr=
ee
> > > Swap: 512M Total, 64K Used, 512M Free
> > >=20
> > > The server seems to be ok, but eventualy I=B4m geting problems with t=
he
> > > execution of cgi script=B4s. This is the error message from the error
> > > Apache logs
> > > [Wed Aug  4 17:13:17 1999] [error] (35)Resource temporarily unavailab=
le:
> > > couldn't spawn child process: /var/www/cgi-bin/Count.cgi
> > >=20
> > > Did anybody get=B4s the same?
> > >=20
> > > Thanks in advance for yor help.
> > >=20
> > > Luis.
> > >=20
> > --=20
> > Carol Deihl - carol@tinker.com
> > Shrier and Deihl - Unix Network Admin and Internet Software Development
> > http://www.tinker.com/ - Tinker Internet Services
> >
> >
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>=20
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