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Date:      Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:28:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Barrett Richardson <ratbert@phoenix.aye.net>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
Cc:        Marcos Viterbo <mavit@vecom.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CGI problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981218162755.27423A-100000@phoenix.aye.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812171003310.334-100000@aniwa.sky>

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On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Marcos Viterbo wrote:
> 
> > Greetings.
> > 
> > I am facing some problems with CGIs (freebsd_2.2.6 + apache_1.3.0). When the
> > system reaches about 55 apache instances the CGIs won't execute anymore and
> > returns a 500 error. I recompiled the kernel and libc altring
> > FD_SETSIZE=1024, maxusers=256, open_max, max_proc (child_max) in the kernel
> > and login.conf, maxconn to 256, nmbclusters=8192, recompiled apache with a
> > higher maxclients. The system has 128 MB RAM (it never goes beyond 50MB).
> > It happens only with external CGIs (PHP3 supports as many instances as the
> > apache is configured to).
> 
> Sounds familiar.  I had problems first with number of processes and then
> with number of file handles.
> 
> It's not your system wide resources that are limited, but your per-process
> limits.  If you set up a CGI like this you'll see it:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo Content-type: text/html
> echo
> limits
> 
> My solution was to put some ulimit statements near the head of apachectl.
> 
> Andrew McNaughton
>

I was able resolve similar issues by raising some parameters in
login.conf.
 
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