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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:30:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Arjan van Staalduijnen <A.vanStaalduijnen@nedstat.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Couldn't spawn child process - Apache webserver problem on FreeBSD system.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291630010.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35BF50BD.4C1823E6@nedstat.net>

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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Arjan van Staalduijnen wrote:

> I'm using a system running Apache 1.3.0 and FreeBSD 2.2.6. The
> webserver of this system is reporting internal server errors from time
> to time, and when it is it is reporting loads of them. The server
> errorlogs show the error 'Resource temporarily unavailable: couldn't
> spawn child process' for the Perl-script it is trying to execute.

You need to tune the process limits for `daemon' in /etc/login.conf. Poke
around on www.apache.org and in the www.freebsd.org mail archives, there
are instructions for performance-tuning like this.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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