From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 23 6:38:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from loki.intrepid.net (intrepid.net [204.71.127.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3D214C36 for ; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 06:38:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@loki.intrepid.net) Received: (from mark@localhost) by loki.intrepid.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA30083; Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:38:39 -0400 Message-ID: <19991023093839.A26347@intrepid.net> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 09:38:39 -0400 From: Mark Conway Wirt To: FengYue , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: apache server can't spawn child processes References: <19991019202238.D36005D001@mail.wzrd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: ; from FengYue on Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:36:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 06:36:54PM -0700, FengYue wrote: > > > > children run as), and cgi programs can't spawn, getting this in the > > > error log for this server: > > > > > > (35)Resource temporarily unavailable: > > > couldn't spawn child process: > > > /content/somesite/public-html/something/cgi/step1.cgi > > Take a look at your /etc/login.conf and look for 'daemon' class which is > the class for services started from /etc/rc.* > > change the maxproc=64 to maxproc=512 or some other larger number. It's also possible that you're running out of open file descriptors, either though a login.conf definition, or a kernel limit: http://www.apache.org/docs/misc/descriptors.html I've seen the same errors (can't spawn) when the server is unable to open files. --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message