Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:57:02 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Mike Alich <hostmaster@cctinc.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Child Processes Message-ID: <19991119215702.C3558@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <19991119215357.B3558@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3835C199.ECBA024B@cctinc.net> <19991119215357.B3558@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Mike Alich wrote:
>
>> I have a web server running and it is under thousands of requests per
>> day, about 500,000 for just one site. The problem I am having is cgi's
>> can not run because the web server is telling me it can't spawn child
>> process because resources are temporarily unavailable.
>>
>> What can I do to stop this problem? Is there a setting in the kernel or
>> where can I go. I have been trying to tweak Apache but no luck there...
>
> What does `sysctl -a | grep maxproc' show? You *might* be able to
arggh. Some of that might only apply to 3.X, I don't know as much about
2.2.x (I didn't notice that's what you were using the first time). On
earlier systems I think there was a CHILD_MAX kernel config option which
controls the maximum number of processes. You might like to check LINT
and GENERIC under /sys/i386/conf to see if they have anything so say.
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