From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 29 16:31:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00244 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:31:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00210 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:31:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22873; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:30:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:30:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Arjan van Staalduijnen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couldn't spawn child process - Apache webserver problem on FreeBSD system. In-Reply-To: <35BF50BD.4C1823E6@nedstat.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message